{"product_id":"evensong-1980s-ink-blue-ruffle-collar-puff-sleeve-dress","title":"Evensong · L.T.D. by Roberta 1980s Black Ruffle Collar Puff Sleeve Dress","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eL.T.D. by Roberta, U.S.A. · black smooth-faced synthetic with a soft lustre · standing ruffle collar · gathered puff sleeves, 37cm at full puff · full sweeping skirt · 1980s occasion dressing · L 109cm flat · AU 10–12 · very good condition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack, but never flat. The fabric is a smooth-faced synthetic with a soft lustre, so every gather takes the light differently and the dress reads in a dozen depths of dark. Around the scooped neckline runs a standing ruffle, gathered tight so it frames the collarbone the way a ruff frames a portrait sitter. The sleeves arrive full and gathered, holding their own air, and below the bodice the skirt simply lets go: yards of it, falling straight into movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe label reads \u003cem\u003eL.T.D. by Roberta\u003c\/em\u003e, an American occasion-dress house of the late 1970s and 80s whose work now circulates among vintage dealers precisely because it did occasion so well. Roberta dressed the parties of that decade: the proms, the dinners, the nights that required a dress that could hold a room. The 1980s spent a great deal of energy remembering other centuries, and this dress belongs to that current, the decade's romance with the Victorian translated into the fabrics the decade did best. Synthetics get little credit, but they are why a dress like this survives: the colour has not faded, the gathers have not collapsed, and it will pour out of a suitcase ready to be worn. Look at the neckline gathering; a ruffle this disciplined took patience at the machine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44149777203334,"sku":null,"price":145.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_3199.jpg?v=1783581869","url":"https:\/\/checkout.caitiedid.shop\/products\/evensong-1980s-ink-blue-ruffle-collar-puff-sleeve-dress","provider":"caitiedid","version":"1.0","type":"link"}