In between Coronavirus lockdown regulations and curfews, the festive season 2020 promises to be unusual and tinged with sadness in many countries all over the world, but there are ways of fighting the blues.
A while back we went "window shopping" in a museum archive looking for impossibly glamorous festive gowns to celebrate the new year, and we could now do the same with Christmas, maybe leafing through a vintage magazine and putting together a unique festive wardrobe made with rare designs that we may not be able to own or wear but that could still be fun and intriguing.
Today's festive gown is a 1960 emerald green dress by Michel Goma. The dress, calling to mind designs favoured by Audrey Hepburn, featured a fitted bodice and full skirt and a boat neck collar on the front that turned into an open square back. It was available in satin, taffeta, faille or velvet and was characterised by four ribbons, two on the shoulders and two on the back and an appliqued beaded motif on the front encrusted with blue and yellow rhinestones.
Sure, we may never manage to get the original, but we may still be inspired by it or, with some advanced sewing skills, we may even be able to recreate it.
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