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A true investment piece, created in finest wool jersey, showing delicately top stitched center seams front and back with an added top stitched horizontal seam just below the waist in front. long elegant sleeves, slightly fitted throughout, absolutely the highest quality. Delicately top stitched side hip pockets, dress this sweet beauty up or down, no matter... as you'll look and feel a million every time.
Details:
Closers: Slips on over head.
Condition: Excellent, showing little to no wear.
Maker: Designed by Bonnie Cashin , Cashin Country, Saks Fifth Avenue.

The artist:
Bonnie Cashin (1908-2000) was one of the foremost American fashion designers in the second half of the twentieth century. At the vanguard of her field for nearly forty years, she had an enormous influence on twentieth-century design.

At the vanguard of her field for nearly forty years, it is impossible to overstate the enormity of her influence on twentieth-century design.

A "nomad by nature," Cashin grew up in a string of California cities, particularly fascinated by the jostling of Asian and South American cultures. She dreamt of being a ballerina, an artist or a writer. These early passions — for travel, exoticism, dancing, drawing, and storytelling — combined with her determination and talent to form a series of creative careers on both American coasts. She designed costumes for chorus girls, uniforms for World War II, and wardrobes for over sixty Hollywood movies, before her decades of fashion work as a "name" on Seventh Avenue.

Cashin's oft-stated credo, "chic is where you find it," sums up her belief that a "habit of wonder" and an ability to see relationships between objects and ideas far removed from the fashion world were the most important tools for a designer. Rather than look at fashion history, she was apt to cite the "rhythm of poetry or good reading" from John Gardner, Henry Thoreau, Georges Seferis, Buckminster Fuller or Bertrand Russell as a means to stretch her mind and find inspiration for ready-to-wear designs.

In 1977 she started her "Cashin Country" line. Bonnie Cashin retired from designing in 1985.

If you have a garment with Bonnie Cashin's name on it, then it was designed by her. She never entered into any licensing agreements, and never employed assistant designers. Today, Cashin's designs often look so modern as to make a casual observer of her work think, "What's the big deal?" But actually, that's the point. Cashin's work was so influential that today most of her innovations are commonplace.