c.1976-77 Chanel True Haute Couture Red & Black Floral Print Silk Dress designer-missoni Skirt: 20" from bottom of

Skirt: 20" from bottom of the banding at the waist to hem

The base is a woven cotton dyed to a deep blue

give it a forties feel with a pair of wide cut shorts

The neckline dips and is edged in a pretty spray of pink pearls with a cluster of pearls adoring the end of the ties at the neck

c.1976-77 Chanel True Haute Couture Red & Black Floral Print Silk Dress designer-missoni Skirt: 20" from bottom ofTrue Haute Couture pieces by Chanel are an extraordinary find as they are so very rare and hard to come by. This one, like several other of the Haute Couture pieces in the shop at the moment, are from one of my clients whose mother purchased the majority of her Couture pieces between 1973 to the mid and late seventies. The dress is made of two layers. There is an inner silk dress that acts as the lining, and then an outer layer over that, made from a