Incredible 1930s Black Moss Silk Crepe Dress Densely Covered w Rare Gelatin Sequins & Seed Beads designer-geoffrey-beene The dress is suspended from

The dress is suspended from teeny silk straps and the neckline at the front dips down

ribbon edge slits up each side

It is styled with an additional light crinoline but does have fullness on its own so it really can be worn either way depending on how dressed you want to make it

Early Fendi examples are so hard to find and definitely fall into the "rare" category

Waist: 10-13" flat across the back from side seam to side seam

Incredible 1930s Black Moss Silk Crepe Dress Densely Covered w Rare Gelatin Sequins & Seed Beads designer-geoffrey-beene The dress is suspended fromThis is one of the most incredible dresses from this time period that I have had in the shop. The fabric is an early and original version of the moss crepes that you see so frequently during the 1970s with designers like Ossie Clark. It is also special in that all of that sequin work that covers the entire dress are gelatine sequins which are a rarity in themselves. In the 1920s when the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen tomb was opened, many garments