Vintage custom-made, designer for FIVE FIRST LADIES —ADELE SIMPSON: FLATTERING Red taffeta “Fit and Flare” Holiday party dress or gown with red attached crinoline, size 8 (dark areas on the dress are shadows in photographing the dress). Totally “Mrs Maisel”
Offered here is a 1950-60 custom-made red taffeta dress or gown By the famous designer for FIVE FIRST LADIES— ADELE SIMPSON! Lovely “ Fit and Flare”design with a full pleated fold out area on the left bottom skirt. This dress is STUNNING!!! Again— dark areas in some photos are shadows cast from a tree in the photograph and not stains on the dress!!
Adele Simpson was a successful American fashion designer known for her innovative use of fabrics in her designs. She won many awards during hercareer—-And created first woman’s American design houses in what was typically a man’s field! Simpson created innovative and accessible fashions that hit global runways and even graced the covers of Vogue magazine. One of the founders of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) and the Fashion Group International (FGI), she is also known as “America’s First Ladies’ Designer.” Over the course of four decades she dressed Mamie Eisenhower, Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Betty Ford, Rosalyn Carter, and Barbara Bush. Photo no. 10 shows Italian actress Sophia Loren in an Adele Simpson gown.
The Adele Simpson gown offered here has a wonderful design with tulip sleeves and the same cross-over design brought into the skirt—exposing a hidden fuller skirt with pleats that exposes as one walks and moves in this gown! This dress is gorgoues!!
The skirt has an attached, adjustable red crinoline underneath, red metal zipper, and is in very good vintage condition! Details include tulip sleeve (see close-up photo), flattering wide waist band, a deep scoop neckline, and a festive bow at the bodice adds sophistication, interest and charm.
This lovely, flattering scoop necked dress is freshly dry cleaned and ready to wear for your next party, concert, or holiday gathering. (Shoes are also listed and are designer shoes).
Custom embroidered label inside the neck reads “Gown Shop Helen E Boylan Kalamazoo, Mich” . This gown is Dressmaker made by Adele Simpson with her label sewn into the skirt seam ( see photo) and sold at the Boylan shop— from a former highly esteemed dress shop in Kalamazoo, Mi.
The dress fits my size 8 dress form.
Measurements:
Waist: 24”
Bust: 36-38”
Shoulder to waist: 16.5”
Waist to hem: 30”
Shoulder to hem: 46.5”
Shoulder seam to shoulder seam: 15 1/4”
Listing is is for the dress only— but the 1910 opera coat is also listed as are the Designer heels with PInK satin roses— from the same era!
Please ask questions. This is an authentic vintage dress and is in vintage condition from 1950s. Please note that vintage clothing has been previously worn and stored for 65+ years. This gown has been dry cleaned before listing.
I have other vintage and antique listings from my former vintage collection— as I had a vintage shop in the early 1980s and have stored a very large collection.
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