c.1967 Gene Shelly Blue Crystal & Silver Sequin Stretch Knit Dress designer-michaele-vollbracht The rest of the gown

The rest of the gown is equally as fabulous

Its pretty tiny - on the mannequin it only snapped at the very out snaps and really on the right sized person would fully cross over and have more coverage and security

Made entirely of  silk

dance in and pretty much everything else

c.1967 Gene Shelly Blue Crystal & Silver Sequin Stretch Knit Dress designer-michaele-vollbracht The rest of the gownIn its heyday the Gene Shelly of California label was highly sought after. The label was doing some of the best of the early sequinned vintage pieces that you could find anywhere on the planet. All of the sequin work that covers this dress was done by hand in Hong Kong on American manufactured knit. The company would send the fabric to be hand sequinned and beaded. After that was done the fabric would be sent back to California where the dresses were