Vintage 60s CHESTER WEINBERG Couture BABY DOLL Dress S RED CARPET QUALITY~GOLDEN CHARTREUSE YELLOW~DATED 1968 Start Price USD 525.00 Current Price USD 525.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, October 05, 2008 End Time Tuesday, November 04, 2008 Location My Vintage Clothing Closet See more about 'Vintage 60s CHESTER WEINBERG Couture BABY DOLL Dress S' Description MOD Vintage 60s CHESTER WEINBERG Couture PARTY Dress S ~Circa ~October~1968~ If you're searching for that perfect one-of-a-kind elegant vintage cocktail party or evening frock, you've just found it! Don't miss out! Once its gone, it's gone for forever! Up for auction this week is this elegant and beautiful One-Of-A-Kind Custom Made to Order Silk Party Dress by Cody Award winning Top Designer Chester Weinberg! This dress is expertly tailored from a top quality silk fabric and features a sexy low cut high empire waist crossover bodice with bracelet length sleeves. Closes down the back with a nylon zipper and hook and eye at the top. Dress has bra strap holders and is fully lined. The color of this dress is hard to describe and after showing pictures to several colleagues who gave differing opinions on the color I can only say that it is definitely a celery green tinged yellow, like chartreuse but more golden, it is simply beautiful and I don't think you will be unhappy with it at all. So with that said I am not guaranteeing this to be a true chartreuse, celery, green-tinged yellow etc color as what you see on your monitor I may see differently on mine. I am listing this dress more for its designer value than for it's color. Labels: Chester Weinberg, Saks Fifth Avenue, and a Saks Fifth Ave Dated Custom Made Couture Tag (see picture) Chester Weinberg; (1931 -1985):American fashion is said to have come of age in the 1960s, and Chester Weinberg is counted among those designers such as Bill Blass, Geoffrey Beene, Oscar de la Renta, and Donald Brooks who are credited with helping American fashion grow up. Specifically, Weinberg designed clothes notable enough to garner the sort of distinction and reputation that only French fashion had previously enjoyed. A native New Yorker who attended the high school of Music and Art and went on to Parsons School of Design, Weinberg designed anonymously as an assistant at a number of clothing manufacturers on Seventh Avenue, among them Harvey Berin, Teal Traina, Leonard Arkin, and Herbert Sondheim. His first collection in 1966 was a great success and launched him into the fashion limelight. Preferring soft lines, ruffles, and an unstructured form, Weinberg designed a wide variety of evening dresses and daywear, including caftans, one-shouldered dresses with slash hems, elegant ball gowns, culotte suits, mod A-line dresses, exquisite dyed silk Japanese dresses, sweaters, jumpsuits, and soft, uniquely detailed suits with distinctive silhouettes. He was especially fond of good fabrics, using textiles from all over the world in bold, nontraditional colors. Urbane and timeless, his designs were never baroque or overwhelming. Weinberg brought the first longer skirts to the runway in 1965, showing A-lines ending below the knee. He was one of the proponents of the baby-doll look and the loose, gypsy-and flower child-inspired styles of the early 1970s. The look of a Weinberg is familiar even to those who have never heard of him, for his designs were some of the defining looks of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Vintage Weinberg is still fashionable today, when you can find one. Condition: Excellent, no flaws to note other than a small fray on the left sleeve near the edge. Although dress is clean, dry-cleaning is recommended before wearing. You WON'T be disappointed with this one! Don't forget to check out our other bombshell dress auctions and please add us to your favorite seller list. Please SCROLL down for MORE Pictures and READ TERMS below pictures! Bust: 34-36 inches Under Bust: 30 inches Bodice: 15 inches (shoulder to waist) Waist: 26 inches Hips: full Sleeves: 16 ½ inches (underarm seam to cuff) Length: 35 inches Pinned on Mannequin: NO Any accessories shown on the mannequin such as belts that are not original to the item, jewelry, shoes or crinolines used to show fullness are not included. Because some of the clothes that I sell are mostly bigger than the vintage mannequins I use to display them on, I may clip the clothing back to fit the mannequin to show a better fit. The mannequin's I mostly use are as follows: A vintage 1950's mannequin whose measurements are Bust 34", Waist 24" and Hips 36", she stands about 5' 8'' and a gold headless body form whose measurements are Bust 37", Waist 24", and Hips 34" Please note: Photos may be lightened or darkened as needed to show detail. Unless noted otherwise, any spots are camera glare or gold shining through from the mannequin form. **Proud Member of the VFG, Vintage Fashion Guild** **Proud Member of The eVintage Society** SHOP Bombshell*Frocks for the BEST in UNIQUE Vintage Fashions! My preferred payment is PayPal; we also accept USA money orders. We do NOT accept checks. Payments are due within 7 days of auction closing. Payment is expected within time stated above otherwise item will be relisted and a non-paying bidder dispute will be opened. I ship items daily, payment must be received before noon (Excluding weekends and holidays) So YOU can be assured of FAST DELIVERY of your purchase! 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