c.1976 Nina Ricci Silk Voile Pink Paisley Print Ruffle Trim Dress designer-sybil-connolly The front is a simple

The front is a simple strapless gown with a panel of silk running across the top and the rest falling to the floor in a sleek column

Still hippie chic and cool but practical at the same time and the cut and elastic would have allowed a bit of room to grow

deep pleating worked in the skirting and bodice and hand placed work through the hem so it has the slightest drawing in to suggest a tulip silhouette

The edges are finished with a silver piping

c.1976 Nina Ricci Silk Voile Pink Paisley Print Ruffle Trim Dress designer-sybil-connolly The front is a simpleThis wonderful pink silk voile dress is from the Nina Ricci Boutique ready to wear line. When hunting for a reference to date it by, I happened across a photo from 1976 that has a Ricci dress in a very similar print, color and ruffle trim finish. The Ricci atelier was launched in Paris in 1932, Ricci retired from designing in the early 1950s and then Jules Francois Crahay headed the design team until he left for Lanvin in 1963. That makes this dress