Little Lace Dream!

There are so many dresses in Dirty Fabulous that I love and the one that Aoife chose for her recent special day was one of them!

It was a soft cream, late 1920's early 30's style dress, with a drop waist and rhinestone clasp on the neck. To me it was the perfect length, had a lovely covered sleeve and was constructed of a beautiful lace and Swoon...Aoife wore it to perfection! 

Congratulations on you recent wedding, you looked stunning! 

Vintage Wedding Dresses from New York

Oooh, lots of elegant, flirty, unique, timeless and special vintage wedding dresses now in stock. Just take a peak...

1970's Tadashi ,draped goddess wedding gown with silver beading 

€760 33/25/37 Size 8

, Vintage, blush silk Cardierre Et Cie, flapper style dress

€800 34/30/36 

Size 8-10 

1950's, super cute, ivory prom dress with double sash on back

€540 34.26 size 8 

1950's Grace Kelly Style, flocked prom dress with matching cropped jacket

€750 32/24 size 6 

1920's silk and seed beaded wedding gown 

€1100 32/26 size 8 

1950's ivory organza, ballet length, prom dress with aurora borealis sequined bust

€680 32.24 Size 6-8 

1950's bronze silk, wiggle dress with rhinestone and lace detail at neck

€510 40/28/38 size 10-12 

1940's Jules Furst, Broderie Anglaise cotton bridal prom dress

 €540 36.28 size 10-12

1950;s ruched, biscuit cotton prom dress with button front 

€390 40.28 size 10-12 

This is just a tiny selection of the fabulous dresses we sourced in New York. We're busy trying to get everything photographed in between our appointments. As soon as we have more I'll post them up, so bare with us! 

Don't worry, If you just can't wait, you can make an appointment to see the collection in full! Give us a call on 01 6111842 or email info@dirtyfabulous.com

Made in Dublin in the 20's

Now here is a treat! We generally only stock American vintage, this is for a number of reasons. Primarily it is because we prefer the style but also in part because it is a much bigger scene there. This means there are more serious collectors so a better quality of high end vintage gowns are available for Dirty Fabulous to buy and bring home to you lovely ladies!

We rarely if ever come across Irish vintage in really beautiful condition. We have had a stunning Sybil Connolly full length crochet gown but we bought this in New York and not in Ireland.

Sybil Connolly is so collectible and coveted we didn't have it in the store long enough to get a photo of it for our own archives!

So we are thrilled to present this 1920's blush satin and intricate gold lame lace gown in stunning condition.

This wedding gown was sold by Slyne and Co, 71 Grafton St, sometime between 1917 and 1922.
Slyne and Co. were a ladies dressmaker of very expensive gowns.
The shop was owned by a widower called Kathleen Clare Hyland nee Slyne. She re-married in 1917 and definitely already had the shop prior to being married. 
We were also told that while dresses were made to order in Dublin for sale in Slynes, they also stocked high end luxury gowns from Paris. There is no way to be 100% sure which is the case with this particular dress. It has the original Slynes label but nothing else to guide us in our research.
We have the original box with the order details and this was a very very expensive gown in its day. At the time this gown cost £95 which in today's money would be €3,500!
It also came with an original pearl 1920's headpiece, (in many parts!) and we are currently restoring it to it's former glory.

A view down Grafton Street showing Slyne & Co. two thirds the way down on the left.

This is were Boodles is now situated.
image via dublinforum.

During my research on the company I came across the following auction lot description of a catalogue from Slynes- unfortunately it sold at auction about 8 years ago and  there are no photos now available of the catalogue.

Irish Slyne Catalogue Dublin Fashions 1920s 

Album

8 page catalogue on strong paper with 14 illustrations - see enlarged image. Elegant ladies with great 1920s styles.
Expensive costumes! - the average wages in the Dublin of the 1920s was approximately £3.00 a week!!

Slyne & Co. Ltd., Ladies Tailors, 71 Grafton Street, Dublin.

The following link is to a brochure/programme for the Rathmines and Rathgar musical Society in 1914 which has a Slynes advertisement for a fabulous sounding black evening gown!

http://issuu.com/randr_musical_society/docs/1914_-_the_yeoman_of_the_guard/7?e=0