Oversized 1960s Wool Tweed Boucle Coat designer-jean-paul-gaultier Light boning at the sides

Light boning at the sides

Its is very pretty and a great little dress

The skirt has a pretty fullness to it and both the lining and the exterior silk are finished at the hem with a strip of horsehair netting

Each sleeve has the fabric placed so that the huge blooms are shown to their best advantage

This dress is extraordinary

Oversized 1960s Wool Tweed Boucle Coat designer-jean-paul-gaultier Light boning at the sidesThis coat is not perfect (but its just the buttons that makes that statement true) and it is such a ringer for the coats for Fall 2016 that Isabel Marant walked down the runway recently that I could not help but pull it from the archives and list it. The Marant show gave the 80s as a reference but this coat is earlier but with that same over sized silhouette that was re done for the 80s and again for 2016. The blue wool has been woven in a large tweed