“They just don’t make ‘em like that nowadays.”
Thank goodness!
What construction technique on yesterday’s very expensive (then and now) 1950’s dress is unlike anything you see in this century?
I think it is that zipper. This company did a wonderful job on a difficult ask - make a metal machine disappear into a silk textile. This zipper is the best one I have seen - and it is still lumpy. Look how that top stitching to the left of the zipper goes a little wider when you get to the waist seam? Now I know that happens to the best of us.
Even Charles James, that best of the best 1950s ball gown maker, has a pretty lumpy zipper.
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