Chic & Simple Late 1990s Jacques Fath Off-White Ivory Feather Cropped Capelet designer-adolfo I see three small repairs

I see three small repairs to the fabric but they look stable

It is made of a black velvet and detailed with heavy gold and black silk cording that edges the neckline and the outer edge of the velvet

The  of the dress them selves are fairly simple and that really allows the metallic detailing to shine

Size wise it fits a dressmakers US 8 exactly

Chic & Simple Late 1990s Jacques Fath Off-White Ivory Feather Cropped Capelet designer-adolfo I see three small repairsJacques Fath showed his first collection of just twenty garments in the spring of 1937. It was received well and he steadily built a strong clientele, eventually expanding into America. The label was shuttered in 1957 after Fath's death three years earlier. In 1992 the label was revived and for the next ten years or so continued to present runway collections. This dress is from that period in the 1990s and is a wonderful piece. It has a definitive nod