Vintage 1940s satin dressing gown or house coat - double elevens ‘eleven o eleven’ or dinner plates label reticule Bishop’s sleeves accentuated with extra

Bishop’s sleeves accentuated with extra shaping darts

it is strong and wearable but wounded

with a really fabulous painterly floral print on a wedgewood blue ground

( could be disguised by adding more beads

The wax flowers are a little worse for wear

Vintage 1940s satin dressing gown or house coat - double elevens ‘eleven o eleven’ or dinner plates label reticule Bishop’s sleeves accentuated with extraFound hanging in a bedroom of the house we recently purchased, this rather elegant mid late 1940s satin house coat or dressing gown. With floral upper and black satin skirts. Wide cuffs, heavily gathered shoulder seams and huge shoulder pads its a really square shouldered look to make your waist tiny! Fastens with coordinating waist tie, and could be worn as a dressing gown or even as an evening coat over a satin slip dress? Label is the eleven o