{"product_id":"still-water-black-crepe-sleeveless-column-dress","title":"Still Water · Vogue Overseas 1960s Beaded-Hem Black Cocktail Dress","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVogue Overseas, Adelaide · Estacel jet-spun acetate and rayon crepe · black bugle bead fringe hem · sleeveless cocktail sheath · tiered skirt · scooped neck · fully lined · metal zip with hook and eye · 1960s · L 106cm flat · AU 14 · good to very good condition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe keeps her one secret below the knee: the overskirt ends in a fringe of black bugle beads, a swinging line of glass running the full perimeter, catching the light at every step exactly the way a 1920s dancer's hem was built to. Forty years after the flappers, in a suburban Adelaide workroom, someone was still thinking about them. Above the glitter, restraint. A sleeveless sheath in matte black crepe, scooped at the neck, bound at the shoulders, shaped by seams alone, the beaded tier lying over a slim skirt beneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe is a 1960s dress, and two names inside her say so. The maker's label reads \u003cem\u003eVogue Overseas, Adelaide\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the small Australian ready-to-wear houses that dressed this country's cities through the 1950s and 60s, the years when ready-to-wear replaced the salon. Houses like this rarely made it into the archives, which is precisely why their surviving dresses matter; they are the record. The second label names the cloth: \u003cem\u003eEstacel, jet spun acetate fibre and rayon\u003c\/em\u003e, a registered fibre mark of the era, the same name found stitched into other Australian dresses of the decade. Fibre-brand tags were a mid-century badge of modernity. You were not just buying a black dress; you were buying the future by the yard, and jet-spun acetate was prized for exactly what this dress does: a deep, matte, light-swallowing black.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe construction agrees with both labels. Fully lined in slippery black, a metal-toothed zip with a hook and eye standing guard above it, a cocktail length proper to its decade.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44149783560326,"sku":null,"price":190.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_3781.jpg?v=1784766643","url":"https:\/\/checkout.caitiedid.shop\/products\/still-water-black-crepe-sleeveless-column-dress","provider":"caitiedid","version":"1.0","type":"link"}