{"title":"S","description":"\u003cp\u003eSizing here comes from measuring, not from whatever's stitched inside the collar. These read as roughly a small to my eye. The listings have the full measurements, which is where I'd start.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"chalk-line-ellen-tracy-1990s-navy-pinstripe-mini-skirt","title":"Chalk Line · Ellen Tracy 1990s Ink Black Pinstripe Mini Skirt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eInk black pinstripe polyester suiting · straight mini silhouette · front vent at hem · back zip · fully lined · Ellen Tracy · 1990s · 53cm long, 36cm waist flat · tagged a vintage 10\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery stripe on her runs the same distance from its neighbour, an obsessive kind of regularity that only shows up close, and at the hip the fabric softens just slightly, draped rather than seamed flat, before the whole thing snaps straight again down to a single vent at the hem, set right of centre rather than in the middle where a vent usually hides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe stripe is woven in, not printed on, fine white against the darkest, inkiest black, a shade that edges toward blue without ever quite arriving, the way proper suiting has always done it. The whole skirt is built with a tailor's instinct for movement: draped ease at the hip rather than a stiff seam, and a vent at the lower hem placed slightly off centre so the leg has somewhere to go without the line ever looking accidental. Ellen Tracy built a career on precisely this kind of American workwear, tailored pieces meant to survive a decade of Mondays, and this one carries the label from the 1990s, when a pinstripe this fine on a hem this short was its own kind of office rebellion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe closes at centre back with a lapped zip alone, and the fabric is fully lined so the pinstripe never has to do the work of hiding anything underneath. The hem narrows slightly from hip to knee, 50cm at the hip easing to 48cm at the hem, a straight rather than pencil-tight cut that still reads sharp on the body.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44179901120646,"sku":null,"price":85.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_3832.jpg?v=1784775963"},{"product_id":"field-notes-aurelie-1980s-illustrated-rose-print-party-dress","title":"Rose Hipped · Aurélie 1980s Illustrated Rose Print Party Dress","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAurélie · 1980s · tagged a vintage 10 · exhibition condition · puff sleeves \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e· structured drop waist \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e· keyhole back with bejewelled button \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e· tulle petticoat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe roses on this dress were never meant to look painted. Look closely and every petal is built from a fine cross-hatch, ink over ink, the way a botanist might shade a specimen before the age of photographs: peach over lavender over a teal so deep it reads as shadow. It is a print that rewards standing still in front of it, which is a strange thing to ask of a party dress.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dress like this descends from a very particular lineage: the party frock that never quite forgot the ballgown it once was, its waist dropped low the way waists dropped in the twenties, then again in the eighties when nostalgia came back around wearing bigger sleeves. Aurélie is barely a whisper of a name now, but whoever set this print onto cloth understood that a screen-printed rose could still ache like something painted by hand, if the ink was allowed to cross-hatch instead of flatten. That is the particular magic of her: an ordinary manufacturing trick, worked patiently enough to fool the eye into tenderness. The tulle beneath the skirt is inherited too, borrowed from grander dresses and smuggled quietly into a Tuesday-night frock. It is why she belongs here: not because anyone remembers her name, but because someone, once, refused to let a party dress stay simple.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sleeves are gathered into a soft puff at the shoulder, and the bodice drops into a structured waist seam before the skirt is gathered full below it, a self-fabric bow tied at the back of that seam for good measure. The back itself opens into a long keyhole from nape to waist, closed at the top with a single bejewelled button, with a concealed zip. 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