40’s Dress Black White Cotton Gingham Bustle Back 1920 lingerie Feels like silk velvet

Feels like silk velvet

armpit to armpit: 19

5inches (39

Comes with the original belt

leaving the eye popping pattern to take center stage

40’s Dress Black White Cotton Gingham Bustle Back 1920 lingerie Feels like silk velvetThis late 1940s dress in black and white gingham cotton has a fabulous bustle back skirt, constructed using vertical cartridge pleats to gather the skirt fabric. The rest of the dress silhouette keeps it sweet and simple, with a lace trimmed scoop neckline, cap sleeves, and a slightly raised waist seam in front, which curves down in back, to where the bustle pleating starts. The pretty neckline trim has a pattern of bows, adding an extra feminine