{"product_id":"nocturne-black-liquid-satin-bias-slip-dress","title":"Nocturne · Outrage 1990s Black Liquid Satin Bias Slip Dress","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOutrage, made in Australia · black liquid satin · polyester · deep V front and plunge back · pointed midriff seam · invisible zip · gathered bust · bias fall · evening length, 153cm flat · tagged a vintage 10, modern AU 8–10 · 1990s · very good condition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoured, not sewn. That is the first impression. Black satin with a wet-look lustre, cut to a deep V and gathered gently beneath the bust so the fabric falls from that one point of tension into a long bias sweep. Wide-set straps, and a back that answers the front with a plunge of its own, diving to a pointed midriff seam where an invisible zip hides along the spine. That pointed seam is proper dressmaking: it lets the bodice gather softly above while the skirt falls dead straight below, and it turns the back of the dress into its best angle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe is a 1990s dress. The label reads \u003cem\u003eOutrage, made in Australia\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the Australian labels of that decade that vintage dealers now trade on sight and historians never wrote down. Even the vintage forums come up empty-handed on \u003cem\u003eOutrage\u003c\/em\u003e, which tells you how these houses worked: city workrooms, boutique racks, no archive, all the documentation left hanging in wardrobes like this one. The dress itself is the record, and it records its decade precisely, the years the slip dress climbed out of the underwear drawer and into the evening. Born as lingerie in the 1930s when bias-cutting first made cloth cling, revived by the minimalists sixty years on, and never quite off duty since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorn alone she is an entire argument. Under the sheer Garage duster also new to the archive, a whole conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44149789229190,"sku":null,"price":130.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_3765.jpg?v=1784766293","url":"https:\/\/checkout.caitiedid.shop\/products\/nocturne-black-liquid-satin-bias-slip-dress","provider":"caitiedid","version":"1.0","type":"link"}