Check out this excellent, never-worn office dress from Prototype Vintage. This is absolutely what you would wear if you were a a go-getting career woman of the era. With a black croc bag and heels, I'm thinking, and an important bracelet.
For something this size (39/29/40) and condition, $55 is an excellent price. I don't think it will last long … if you want it, snap it up.
I am not wearing anything like this today, sadly. It's still just a little too hot for hauteur. (Not to mention that my Joan Crawford impression tends to dissolve into fits of helpless giggling.) No, today I am wearing a late-1940s-pattern dress I made of lightweight Liberty cotton print which looks like a combination of flowers and neurons (don't ask) in orange, red, teal, and moss green on a cream ground. With a green-and-cream zebra-pattern scarf as a belt (good call, Kate!), green glasses and handbag, and an orange sweater. Oh yes, fear me. Fear me and my senseless love of orange and green together.
A Dress A Day 
Oh man. I want this dress like crazy, but I fear it would be a skosh tight. It would be so perfect for my future high-powered career!
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Wait, though, is it just me or does this dress have a little superfluous tab with buttons on it pointing right at your pubic bone? Not right, says I.
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It’s not exactly the same, but I couldn’t help but think of Jimmy Stewart’s sidekick in “The Philadelphia Story,” which I just happened to see last night. No, nobody likes Joan Crawford. Ruth Hussey, on the other hand. Ooh la la….(I would link to a photo here, but it’s just too cumbersome.)
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Oh, good, someone else has this dress “on hold,” so I don’t have to decide whether to buy it or not! It’s lovely, but a little out of my idiom, but it would fit perfectly, but where would I wear it, but, but….
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Darn it, why didn’t you post a swatch of your dress fabric for us? I’m dying to see what it looks like!
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flea: there was a polite convention that no-one in that era HAD a pubic bone. :-)iopine, I promise I’ll scan the fabric when I get back … I’m traveling this week.
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Thanks!
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