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<p>[QUOTE="Debora, post: 391768, member: 1476"]1950s, Billy. I'd call it a dress with matching jacket too. Would have been worn with a discreet strand of pearls. Be careful with this because likely from a small shop (tailor/seamstress/designer) and size would have been customized to a petite, post-World War II Japanese buyer. In other words, very possible that it wouldn't fit a fast food-fed 21st century American woman. (Although it's possible it was made for a foreign customer.) That said, cut is quite nice with slight peplum to jacket reflecting Dior's New Look. And I think the contrast of the Western cut with the traditional Japanese symbols on fabric interesting. Hard to tell from photographs but sure to be excellent quality fabric and construction. Sure there's no label?</p><p><br /></p><p>Debora[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Debora, post: 391768, member: 1476"]1950s, Billy. I'd call it a dress with matching jacket too. Would have been worn with a discreet strand of pearls. Be careful with this because likely from a small shop (tailor/seamstress/designer) and size would have been customized to a petite, post-World War II Japanese buyer. In other words, very possible that it wouldn't fit a fast food-fed 21st century American woman. (Although it's possible it was made for a foreign customer.) That said, cut is quite nice with slight peplum to jacket reflecting Dior's New Look. And I think the contrast of the Western cut with the traditional Japanese symbols on fabric interesting. Hard to tell from photographs but sure to be excellent quality fabric and construction. Sure there's no label? Debora[/QUOTE]
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