mid-’30s
“Vogue called the 1930s the first era of the body-worshipping dress.”
The dress Bias-cut 1930s evening gown by Russian-born designer Valentina
The woman Elizabeth Paepcke, who developed Aspen, Colorado, into a resort town along with her husband, Walter Paepcke
Where she wore it During the Depression, regular folk would’ve drooled as women like Paepcke paraded by them on their way to formal evening activities.
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