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Chloe black silk jacket. The jacket closes at the center front with white buttons.  

SIZE: B-36, LNG-21

CONDITION: Excellent  DECADE: 60s

INDEX # 1  ||  Stock # 31916  ||  $115.00 

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Gloria Sachs brown wool tweed knit dress with an attached matching tie at the throat. The dress is an a-line sheath style with long narrow sleeves.  

SIZE: B-34, W-28, H-35, LNG-43

CONDITION: Excellent  DECADE: 60s

INDEX # 2  ||  Stock # 31932  ||  $175.00 

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Hardy Amies wool dress in a paisley design in greens, brown, blue and ivory. Sable brown suede edges the rounded neckline and the skirt's center front button placket, hem edge, short sleeve hem and pocket welts. The bodice has bust darts for shape and fit and a center back zipper to close. The skirt has center front buttons set on the matching suede that are strictly for decoration, they do not open. Sir Hardy Amis founded his Seville Row fashion house in 1946, after returning to England from World War II as an Intelligence Officer for Royal military. The son of a local government surveyor and Bond Street seamstress, he grew up in Wimble, in northwest London. It was because of his mother's contacts in the dressmaking world that the young Hardy Amies was able to enter the world of fashion. Only six years after he opened his fashion house, he was granted a royal warrant (1952) after he first showed his designs to the then Princess Elizabeth, for her inaugural royal tour. For the next fifty years, until his retirement in 2001 at the age of 91, he was couturier-in-residence at Buckingham Palace for Queen Elizabeth II, creating dozens of outfits each year, from day dresses to ball gowns. Known for his famous quote, wherein he suggested, "God would wear a five-button suit." Sir Hardy Amies had been described by his PR man for 55 years, Peter Hope Lumley as "imperious, arrogant and pompous, but saved by a great sense of humor." Sir Hardy Amies had also been quoted, saying, "I don't think she feels chic clothes are friendly. The Queen's attitude is that she must always dress for the occasion, usually for a large mob of middle-class people. There's always something cold and rather cruel about chic clothes, which she wants to avoid," on his creations for Queen Elizabeth. He was knighted in 1989 and died in his sleep at age 93 last March 2003. Ian Garland, who worked under Sir Hardy Amis for many years, took the creative helm of the house after Sir Hardy Amies' death. Garland presented his first Haute Couture collection in February 2004 in London. bio-Fashion windows 

SIZE: BUST-34, WAIST-26, HIPS-38, LENGTH-37

CONDITION: Excellent  DECADE: 60s

INDEX # 3  ||  Stock # 31169  ||  $295.00 

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Louis Feraud red knit vest and skirt set with white piping.  

SIZE: B-34, W-26, H-40, LNG-25

CONDITION: Excellent  DECADE: 60s

INDEX # 4  ||  Stock # 31905  ||  $98.00 

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Michael Novarese pale tow tone yellow silk brocade evening gown. The gown is supported over the shoulders with a narrow matching corded straps. The bodice is boned and tucked from the side as well as below. The gown falls straight to the floor with a center back slit. The center back zipper is partially hidden by a draped bow. 

SIZE: BUST-34, WAIST-30, HIPS-38, LENGTH-55

CONDITION: Excellent  DECADE: 60s

INDEX # 5  ||  Stock # 29646  ||  $265.00 

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Oleg Cassini hot pink swimsuit made with a stretch pucker fabric. The puckering is achieved by patterned stitching with a thin elastic thread. This is his Peter Pan line.  

SIZE: B-32

CONDITION: Excellent  DECADE: 60s

INDEX # 6  ||  Stock # 31401  ||  $110.00 

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Pucci half slip from Form fit Rodgers. The waist is elastic so the measurement is the elastic at rest. It is totally healthy and has plenty of life left in the stretch. Bright colors and signed with the Pucci name in the fabric. 

SIZE: WAIST-24, HIPS-40, LENGTH-26

CONDITION: Excellent  DECADE: 60s

INDEX # 7  ||  Stock # 30795  ||  $185.00 

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Bill Blass buttery cream lined in navy blue all weather trench coat with matching tie sash belt. Wide pointed lapels and collar. The sleeves are to the wrists and have a turned back cuff. Two angled welt pockets. "Like most people who seem to be most typically New York, Bill Blass comes from Indiana," wrote native Midwesterner Eleanor Lambert in an early press release for Blass when he worked at Maurice Rentner. Blass reigns as an American classic, the man who abidingly exemplifies high style because his work plays on the sharp edge of glamor but never falls into the abyss of indecency. Likewise, it defines sophisticated style because it has elements of the naive and the crude in impeccable balance. Blass is the perfect example of fashion's deconstructivist internal oppositions of real, hyper-glamour, and style synthesis. 

SIZE: BUST-40, SHOULDERS-18, SLEEVE-34, LENGTH-46

CONDITION: Excellent  DECADE: 70s

INDEX # 8  ||  Stock # 29900  ||  $195.00 

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Bill Blass black silk net lace dress with black silk slip. The dress is embroidered black silk tulle that has a scooped neckline and pleated shoulders. The bodice and moderately full skirt join at the natural waistline. The waistline is re-enforced with an inner waist tape. The sheer sleeves are tot he wrist and narrow to the wrist. The fullness in the bodice is contained at the shoulders with the pleats and gathered into the waistline seam. The skirt is gathered into the waistline seam too. The embroidery on the skirt is set to look like tiers, repeating the pattern three times. Blass left home at age 17 to attend the Parsons School of Design in New York City. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he returned to New York, where in 1959 he became the head designer of Maurice Rentner, Ltd. lgerian-born French fashion designer. He left for Paris after secondary school to pursue a fashion career and at 17 was hired as Christian Dior's assistant. When Dior died four years later, he was named head of the House of Dior. In 1962 he opened his own fashion house and quickly emerged as one of the world's most influential designers. He popularized trousers for women for both city and country wear. Metallic and transparent fabrics were prominent in his late '60s collections; in the 1970s, inspired by ethnic costume, he introduced the haute peasant look. During the 1960s and '70s his enterprises expanded to include ready-to-wear licenses, accessories, household linens, fragrances, and men's clothes in addition to his couture business. He retired in 2002.  

SIZE: B-32, W-24, H-36, LNG-48

CONDITION: Excellent  DECADE: 70s

INDEX # 9  ||  Stock # 31917  ||  $265.00 

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Black silk knit evening gown accented with long black fringe. The bodice has long narrow sleeves and a scooped neckline. The skirt is wrappedright over left. Following the hem line and the lapped edge is a line of long black fringe. Blass reigns as an American classic, the man who abidingly exemplifies high style because his work plays on the sharp edge of glamor but never falls into the abyss of indecency. Likewise, it defines sophisticated style because it has elements of the naive and the crude in impeccable balance. Blass is the perfect example of fashion's deconstructivist internal oppositions of real, hyper-glamour, and style synthesis. 

SIZE: BUST-36, WAIST-25, HIPS-44, LENGTH-58

CONDITION: Excellent  DECADE: 70s

INDEX # 10  ||  Stock # 26973  ||  $365.00 

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INDEX # 11  ||  Stock # 31893  || 

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INDEX # 12  ||  Stock # 31907  ||   

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Chloe silk day dress in a vibrant leaf and floral print in red, purple, gold and orange. The center front of the dress closes with round textured brass buttons. The folded collar extends into the long tie that can be knotted or bowed at the throat. The center front has a wide vertical ruffle that extends down onto he skirt. The top ends of the ruffle extend out onto the bodice just below the shoulders and are held in place with matching brass buttons. The waist is elasticized.  

SIZE: B-38, W-29, H-full, LNG-51

CONDITION: Excellent  DECADE: 70s

INDEX # 13  ||  Stock # 32460  ||  $465.00 

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Geoffrey Beene cocoa brown wool tweed jacket and matching skirt. The weave is rough and uneven resembling a sacking material but is actually soft and very supple. The little jacket has a single small gold button that closes above the natural waistline. The skirt closes with a lapped waistband that attaches just above the left pocket. Pleating runs across the front of the skirt. Geoffrey Beene was one of New York's most famous fashion designers, recognized for his artistic and technical skills and for creating simple, comfortable and dressy women's wear. A native of Louisiana, Beene spent three years in medical school in New Orleans before moving to California. There he worked in the display department of the Los Angeles I. Magnin retail store until 1947, when he moved to New York City. He studied fashion design in New York and Paris and spent the 1950s working in New York's garment industry. In 1963 he started Geoffrey Beene, Inc. and soon made a name for himself as an innovator in women's sportswear. In 1967 he designed the wedding dress for Lynda Bird Johnson, the daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson. His other clients included Richard Nixon's wife, Pat, and Ronald Reagan's wife, Nancy. He died in 2004 from complications after pneumonia, at the age of 77.  

SIZE: B-38, W-26, H-42, LNG-27

CONDITION: Excellent  DECADE: 70s

INDEX # 14  ||  Stock # 31936  ||  $115.00 

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Halston blue and white summer suit. The jacket is blue and white striped with a v-neckline and lapped front. The lapped front buttons on the left side and then drops down to close with two additional buttons. The skirt is solid blue.  

SIZE: B-34, W-30, H-36

CONDITION: Excellent  DECADE: 70s

INDEX # 15  ||  Stock # 32462  ||  $245.00 

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