Double Gingham 1970s Maxi Dress fuchsia pant gathered in front onto a

gathered in front onto a row of textured brass buttons

deceptively simple

The skirt is pretty heavy because it's a full semicircle and it demands that you twirl in it

and honestly I'm not really a drape neck girl

This late Edwardian piece is actually wearable

Double Gingham 1970s Maxi Dress fuchsia pant gathered in front onto aFROM MARY FRANCES'S CLOSET If you like gingham, you'll double like this shirtwaist from the early mid 1970s. It's in a one inch black and white poly cotton blend gingham with edgings, placket and collar of quarter inch check, cut on the diagonal, and trimmed with white ric rac braid. There's a nine inch deep double ruffle and the whole thing buttons through with near spherical white buttons. The waist is high, almost empire, and it doesn't come with a