A sleeveless shift dress of cream coloured crepe with flared bias cut skirt from a dropped waist and cowl neck at the front, labelled Nina Ricci, Paris, early 1960s; and a sleeveless black silk cocktail shift dress woven with asymmetrically placed self-coloured satin lines, with a concertina pleated panel falling from the right shoulder where gathered with a paste buckle, across the front of the bodice, labelled Pierre Cardin Prestige, Paris, size 38 (2)

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A sleeveless shift dress of cream coloured crepe with flared bias cut skirt from a dropped waist and cowl neck at the front, labelled Nina Ricci, Paris, early 1960s; and a sleeveless black silk cocktail shift dress woven with asymmetrically placed self-coloured satin lines, with a concertina pleated panel falling from the right shoulder where gathered with a paste buckle, across the front of the bodice, labelled Pierre Cardin Prestige, Paris, size 38 (2)

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