1960s Christian Dior Demi-Couture Textured Ivory Silk A-Line Dress & Matching Crop Jacket Lame & Metallics Front slit: 25" from the

Front slit: 25" from the hem up

The cut of the skirt is kept to very simple lines with a banded waist for shape and then it falls in a simple column of silk to the floor

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It is cut deceptively simple with a slit front neck and a second slit that goes up to the knee up the center seam at the front

The entire dress weighs very little because of the fabric choice and this adds to the high fantasy feel that it has

1960s Christian Dior Demi-Couture Textured Ivory Silk A-Line Dress & Matching Crop Jacket Lame & Metallics Front slit: 25" from theThis is an incredible dress with its matching crop jacket that lands somewhere in that time period between the end of Christian's reign, Yves Saint Laurent's time there, and Marc Bohan's appointment as the head of the Dior atelier. Just based on the style of it I would guess that it is early in Marc Bohan's era but regardless of under whose directorship it falls it is a beautiful and early example of the work being produced by Christian Dior in this