Fall 1980 Mary McFadden Pleated Two Colour Sleeve Dress w Bead Detail designer-joy-stevens No matter what angle you

No matter what angle you see the dress at all your curves are shown off to the maximum

The design is on point and the construction is very good

Note the pink is a touch stronger in hue in real life

Five more of them follow the curved line down the front of the skirt

heavy cream silk that falls wonderfully and is of very high quality

Fall 1980 Mary McFadden Pleated Two Colour Sleeve Dress w Bead Detail designer-joy-stevens No matter what angle youMary McFadden patented her Fortuny inspired pleating technique just a couple of years after launching her label in 1973. By the eighties she had many licensing agreements and her dresses were being made on a larger scale. Earlier pieces like this one had much of the work in them finished by hand and were done in house. She called her pleated fabric 'marii' after her own name. She went around the world to source the fabric she wanted and her pieces