1960s Hardy Amies Deep Turquoise & Printed Silk Organza Dress w Matching Ruffled Capelet designer-maggy-rouff Working in this type of

Working in this type of fabric is already difficult and this would have taken many hours of work to execute the making of this dress by hand

washed by hand once or twice and then disposed of when they fell apart

It is basically a slim cut pencil skirt underneath that has an angled circular panel laying over it that really gives it that beautiful sense of volume

The sleeves are a solid pelt with a large wide cuff defined with another snake inset above it

again emphasizing that illusion of a tiny waist

1960s Hardy Amies Deep Turquoise & Printed Silk Organza Dress w Matching Ruffled Capelet designer-maggy-rouff Working in this type ofThe Hardy Amies label launched in 1946. In the beginning of his career, Amies' only did couture pieces and it was not until 1950 that he added a ready to wear label. The RTW label was still very high end and the pieces had a lot of the same hand finishes that the couture label had. In 1951 Amies was chosen to design some of the wardrobe for Princess Elizabeths tour of Canada. That led to Amies appointment as the Royal Dressmaker in 1955 after