Vintage 80s Helenel pink frill ruffle rara long sleeve boxy dress Sz 16.

This is totally an 80s mum dress. Not even a Lady Di one but a proper housewife one. You think I mean that's a bad thing but it's really not. Great detail has been paid to this piece with its flicky ruffles and swishy box shape, long sleeves and zip & neatly hidden popper closure on the back.

Being an 80s piece this is marked as a size 16 but sizing was very different then so please be sure to check the measurements I have included.

If the colour was any more raspberry, it would be a Prince song. I've used 2 different backgrounds to try and convey the colour, none of which did so entirely successfully. It's much less fuchsia, and far warmer than the ink blue background and more yellow pink than the icy blue pink suggested in the white background. A rich raspberry pink moving to pinky burgundy.

Approx size:
Pit to pit 21 inch
Shoulder to hem 44 inch
Pit to end of cuff 16 inch


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