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Another
amazing find!
This ethereal dress
features and empire bodice and huge angel wing sleeves. Sheer cotton
in a pale shade of minty green with mocha lace trim. Bias cut at the
bottom to add a full ungathered ruffle effect. This long flowy gown
is so simple yet fabulously feminine. It is a genuine early 70's
BIBA -although the BIBA tag was removed you can tell by the remaining Dry
Clean tag that it is a BIBA. You can also find the same dress
pictured on THIS
BIBA Collection website (#65)
The dress is
very long but not floor length.
Please check measurements
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DRESS |
| BUST
under bust
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32-36"
28"
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| WAIST |
32" |
| HIPS |
free |
| SLEEVES |
15" |
| LENGTH |
48" |
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EXCELLENT CONDITION with just a few tiny faint spots
as shown below.
I recommend that all
items be professionally cleaned for best results.
Free U.S.
Shipping!
International
Customers email
us for a fair and honest quote to your location.
Shipping wt: 1lb 6oz
From the
Vintage Fashion Guild Label Resource:
"The
fashion label Biba started life in late 1963 as a mail order company
advertising ready-to-sew garments designed by Barbara Hulanicki, although
the enterprise did not have the name Biba at that point. The
garments were advertised in British daily newspapers such as the Daily
Mirror. Hulanicki’s big break came when Daily Mirror’s fashion
editor Felicity Green asked Hulanicki to design a garment for a
feature on young designers in May 1964. Not having a name for their
new enterprise Hulanicki and her husband Stephen Fitz-Simon decided upon
the name Biba, the shortened version of her sister’s name Biruta. Hulanicki
designed a pink gingham dress and no less than 4,000 orders were received.
Eventually 17,000 of the dresses were sold." Read more at: http://www.vintagefashionguild.org/content/view/92/121/
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