Cocktail Dress , Fall/Winter 1959-60 Designed for Christian Dior , Paris, founded 1946 Silk taffeta Yves Saint Laurent showed this dress in July 1959 as part of his bombshell collection dubbed the new, new look (in comparison to the famous New Look that Christian Dior debuted in 1947)
Dresses for Hourglass Figure Cut for the hourglass figure, made to your measurements
Wearing head-to-toe white can be tricky and might wash out some skin tones
Armed with a jar of slaw dressing in my refrigerator, I thought Id make a Fruit and Nut Slaw
Looking back with a modern eye, where a finished garment (most likely produced in a developing nation by poorly paid workers) can be purchased from a store at a fraction of the price of its cloth, it is a challenge to put yourself in the place of that rural woman with several family members to clothe, but no budget for store bought clothing or new yard goods to sew these garments at home