AN EVENING DRESS
AN EVENING DRESS

1950S, IN EDWARDIAN STYLE

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AN EVENING DRESS
1950s, in Edwardian style
Of pale bronze silk entirely overlaid with black net embroidered with black sequins and beads with stylized flowers and trailing foliage, with bustle, probably by Adrian, together with a black sequin cape (2)

Lot Essay

This dress belonged to Tony Duquette's wife Elizabeth, known as Beegle, who wore it to The Bal Derrière ("The Bustle Ball"), a party which took place at 'Dawnridge' in 1949