Featured Ladies, if I could please ask your advice on this gorgeous dress...

Beautiful dress! Never worn. But I think the weight of it caused beading to come loose at the shoulders. As soon as I removed it from the garment bag I noticed a couple beads fell off. I put a little piece of masking tape to prevent any more from falling, and placed it in a box. My question is, should I attempt to repair it? Or simple sell As-Is and hope for the best? Thank you!

 

First ...what makes you so sure men won’t know the answer???
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Dresses like this should NOT be hung but stored in a proper container and flat as you have now.
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I’d get the tape off it now and the residue left.
Find another way to restrain things.
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You keeping it?
Fix it if you want.
Selling it...may have to fix it.

 

That appears to be a fairly large area of bead loss. Sell as is with full disclosure is always my advice. Others may have a different opinion.

Debora

 

Have the beads broken free on both shoulders?

And I don't think you should try to do any repairs yourself, Hemster.

 

LOL!! sorry King
I took it right down and placed it in a box with tissue paper.
It appears to have been hanging on that hanger for quite some time I'm afraid.

 

Did you pay that much?

 

I don't believe I'll attempt repairs.
Full disclosure - absolutely! Ill sell as-is.

 

No. they are the original price tags

 

Make sure there isn’t a label somewhere in that this was someone’s movie or TV costume.
That stuff has gone crazy.

 

I have no idea what a dress like this would be worth. The pictures don't do it justice really.

 

I know it’s really nice.
I saw.

 

Gone crazy? I like crazy...I'll have to look at it better

 

Long ago, pre fire the original MGM in Vegas sold movie props in a store in the lower mezzanine.
I could’ve retired well on just a few of the things I could’ve bought there.
Up to and including a pair of Dorothy’s red shoes.

I went in there often.

 

Wow, imagine?
The hanger with this dress says 'Orloff Originals'. Could that be something good?

 

What about the label I can see in your first picture? Does that say Orloff too?

 

That label says 'Mr. Blackwell Custom'.

 

That is definitely a "cut above."

Here's some images of dresses with that label.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mr+...j43XAhXKrlQKHRulCJ0Q_AUICygC&biw=1024&bih=659

 

There's a very different range of prices. Would it be too much to start the bidding at $75? Considering the condition..

 

I wonder if that is the same Mr. Blackwell that did the famous worst dressed lists many years ago.

 

Probably.
Like to have know that at first.