The Shrimpton Couture Archives

• This is an incredible dress from the Fall 2000 collection
• Made under the creative direction of John Galliano
• This dress is deceptive in it simplicity. It is all cut on the bias and gives incredible curves once on an actual body. It almost feels like you are wearing nothing because of the soft sand colour and the lightness of the silk.
• The bodice crosses over each cell and as a silk chiffon ruffle that follows the neckline. This wraps around your neck and buttons behind the neck. Panels extend out from the top and they are wide and edged in a raffle. By tying those around the front of the neck you get that beautiful ruffled fall down the front.
• The bought a skim over to the waist and the waist is seemed, but generous and feel. If you really wanted to add faith, you could cinch this in quite substantially.
• Skirt wrap of the bodice and the top layer wrapped over itself. Under that is an inner soak layer that has a shower slit. If you really wanted a lot of leg to show when you walk, you could have your seamstress extend that higher.
• The skirt has a ton of fabric in it, and I love the entire bottom of the skirt has ground cut out to form a pretty design. Each of the circle cut outs has a band of embroidery and a matching thread. This gives an extraordinary texture around the bottom of the dress.
• A row of his signature silk covered buttons and loops runs down the side to close the dress. It's fully lined in a second layer of the same silk chiffon.
• Tagged a Dior FR36, GB8 IT40, US4
• Excellent condition and appears to have been worn very little if at all

Bust: variable because there are no true sizes
Waist: 14" flat across from side seam to side seam
Inner hips: 20-23" flat across from side seam to side seam
Bodice: approx 17-18" from neck to waist but meant to blouse over a touch
Total length: approx 70" from neck to hem

Modern Sizing Equivalent: SML-MED

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