Tabard Style Evening Dress 1910s Vintage Beaded Silk Belle Epoque Flapper Gown

Tabard Style Evening Dress, Edwardian Circa 1910-1925 Belle Epoque Beaded Net Silk Gown Has Maker Label Still Attached Downtown Abbey Style FOR DISPLAY OR STUDY This is the type of thing you see at the costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art being offered for display, or study is this brown net over tunic (silk underdress) w/ brown lace panels embellished w/ copper seed beads. It comes with it’s original Kleinert Dress shields This antique dress is more than 100 years old and is being offered as a piece for display, or study ONLY It has multiple rips, shattering and tears and is as delicate as wet tissue paper when handled. It is not in a condition that can be worn or repaired to be worn It is delicate and irreplaceable. This is being sold as is and as photographed Please carefully examine photos ************ all items sold are finds sourced from estate sales and thrift stores in the Hollywood area Will be wrinkled from storage. I do my best to catalog any flaws I find in the description of the item. Your purchase helps me continue to fund my artistic work as a photographer in Hollywood California. It also helps me to feed my increasingly finicky cat who now only wants the most expensive cat food