MS CHAUS VINTAGE 10 BUTTON PINK BUBBLE DRESS (HONG KONG)

Not Lined 3/4 Sleeves Shoulder Pads Round Neck Pearl and Gold-toned Buttons * Machine Washable MEASUREMENTS SHOULDERS 17 ARMPITS 20.5 SLEEVE LENGTH 18 LENGTH 44.5 Josephine Chaus, the late co-founder of Bernard Chaus Thrust into the position of running Chaus when her husband Bernard died in 1991, Josephine Chaus led the fashion firm through many tumultuous years, exhibiting a courageous and formidable personality, and often reaching into her pocket to keep the company afloat “The company struggled, and she kept it going for her family and her ties to my dad,” said Ariel Chaus. “She was tough; she was strong and independent” Born Josephine Augello on Aug. 25, 1951, she grew up in Searingtown, L.I. She studied at the University of Miami but didn’t receive her undergraduate degree because she ran out of money, said her son Exhibiting a strong interest in fashion, she became a buyer for a New Jersey store at the age of 22 when she met the 44-year-old Bernard Chaus in 1973. After a year of traveling together cross-country by motorcycle, they became partners in a newly created company, Bernard Chaus Inc. in 1975. They married three years later Today, Chaus generates $300 million in wholesale volume, and 50 percent of that is generated by the Vince Camuto sportswear business, which Chaus started manufacturing under license in the fall of 2011. In 2012, Camuto Group acquired the shares of Chaus not owned by the members of the Chaus family, and Chaus ceased to be publicly traded