1940s silk dress

Long before today’s designers were building fashion cred based on high-profile clientele, Valentina (née Valentina Sanina Schlee) made a name for herself dressing celebrities like Greta Garbo and Katharine Hepburn. The single-monikered

Young, fresh, and lyrical is a 1940s American dress draped with strawberries. In the War years, American dress asserted the unpretentious pastoral always ready for picnics and carousels. Like Circus Polka (June 1942), the patriotic and popular-culture collaboration of Stravinsky, Balanchine, Bel Geddes, and the elephants of the Ringling Brother Circus at Madison Square Garden, this dress is an ode to the American summer

Vintage 1940s 1950s Blue Gray Silk Gown / Rayon Silk Satin Silk Liquid Rayon Silk Hostess Dress / L Large by MillayVintage on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/listing/260413991/vintage-1940s-1950s-blue-gray-silk-gown

1949 Model in wine-colored silk taffeta dress by Nettie Rosenstein, Vogue

Evening dress by Elsa Schiaparelli | February 1936 | L'Officiel

1930's Silver Satin Evening Gown... perfection #weddingdress #eveningdress #silkdress #inspiration

Vintage 1940s Wedding Dress from Mill Crest Vintage

Nice to see a colour photo from the 1930s.This dress would have been very expensive to make in the 1930s, but it can be made today at an affordable price. Would women buy dresses like this today?