Incredible 1960s Sybil Connolly Couture Pale Lavender Ruffled Silk Gauze Dress designer-michaele-vollbracht elaborately embroidered

elaborately embroidered

This is a classic Pucci silhouette that is instantly recognizable and very sexy despite it not being super form fitting as you can choose to leave a button or two open at the neck or on the skirt

It has that amazing hippie chic

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It can be worn with the feathers towards the front

Incredible 1960s Sybil Connolly Couture Pale Lavender Ruffled Silk Gauze Dress designer-michaele-vollbracht elaborately embroideredSybil Connolly was based in Dublin and she was known for creating fashion from Irish textiles especially linens that she used both with and without pleats. Her first major US fashion show was in 1953. She quickly became a darling of the American market and was dubbed by the media as 'Dublin's Dior'. Jacqueline Kennedy wore Connolly for her official White House portrait and Connolly was a particular favorite of Carmen Snow, the editor of Harper's