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Color:  Blue
Period: 1930s
Rare Jeanne Lanvin Art Deco Tulle Gown
Located in New York, NY
Rare and important Jeanne Lanvin Tulle Art Deco gown from Summer 1931 of grasshopper green silk tulle with natural tulle strips applied to create petal like patterns across the gown....
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1930s French Fashion

Evening Couture coat in silver lamé by Germaine Lecomte N°03871 Paris Circa 1930
Located in Toulon, FR
Circa 1930 France Beautiful evening coat in blue lamé silver silk branded by Germaine Lecomte, famous Parisian House and dating from the 1930s. Stra...
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1930s French Fashion

Beautiful 1930s Navy Blue Silk Velvet Vintage 30s Cropped Cape Capelet Bolero
Located in San Diego, CA
Such a beautiful vintage 1930s couture navy blue velvet caplet! Features vibrant navy blue textured silk velvet. Intricate black embroidered Russian inspired clasp at neck. Looks fan...
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1930s Fashion

1930S Sapphire Blue Bias Cut Silk Velvet Draped Cap Sleeve Gown
Located in New York, NY
1930S Sapphire Blue Bias Cut Silk Velvet Draped Cap Sleeve Gown
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1930s Fashion

Elaborate French Art Deco Paste Comb
Located in New York, NY
Fine French Art Deco Paste Comb made in France in the 1930's. Clear celluloid is overlaid with a vibrant turquoise celluloid which is incised an...
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1930s French Fashion

1930S Emerald Green & Gold Polyester Velvet Jumpsuit Made In Italy
Located in New York, NY
1930S Emerald Green & Gold Polyester Velvet Jumpsuit Made In Italy
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1930s Fashion

Lenci Art Deco Cubist Wool Beret
Located in New York, NY
The Italian doll company Lenci occasionally made small fashion accessories such as this beret from the 1930's. This elaborate hand pieced patterning is hi...
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1930s Italian Fashion

Art Deco Silver and Blue Lame Wrap
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco Silver and Blue Lame Wrap Gown, originally destined for the boudoir, but, works wonderfully as an evening coat. Made from silky metallic French lame...
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1930s American Fashion

Vintage Blue Silk Velvet Dress
Located in London, GB
A wonderful vintage dress in a vibrant blue silk velvet. The dress has a v neckline, popper fastenings and log of mutton sleaves. It has narrow wrist...
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1930s Unknown Fashion

1930S Blue Linen Men's Striped Popover Shirt
Located in New York, NY
1930S Blue Linen Men's Striped Popover Shirt
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1930s Fashion

Bohemian Czech Art Deco Malachite Glass Scent Bottle
Located in New York, NY
Malachite glass scent bottle by Hoffman/ Schlevogt, evening bag size. Made in the early 1930's with Chinoiserie patterns and a gilt filigree metal s...
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1930s Czech Fashion

1930S JANTZEN Cobalt Blue Wool Knit One Piece Swimsuit
Located in New York, NY
very stretchy, waist goes up to 30 in. 1930S JANTZEN Cobalt Blue Wool Knit One Piece Swimsuit
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1930s Fashion

1930S Blue Hand Woven Rayon Blend With Real Silver Threads Kaftan Vest
Located in New York, NY
1930S Blue Hand Woven Rayon Blend With Real Silver Threads Kaftan Vest
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1930s Fashion

Emerald Green Crochet Fringe Shawl, 1930s
Located in Boca Raton, FL
An exquisite vivid emerald green handmade shawl with long fringe trim. Feels like silk. Handmade Triangle shape. Measurements. Width: 60" inches excluding fringe. Fring...
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1930s Fashion

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Vintage Escada Margaretha Ley Blue Blazer With Avant Garde Geometric Design
Located in Portland, OR
This is a rare Escada vintage blazer with geometric designs reminiscent of Thierry Mugler's style! This pale blue jacket has dramatic dark blue triangles at the waist and under the c...
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Late 20th Century German Fashion

Sara Drower Vegetable Motif Embroidered Duster
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Eat your greens and wear your greens you green goddess!! This is a highly detailed embroidered and quilted Sara Drower duster! She used a fun vegetable print...
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1990s American Fashion

Hermès Blue Chevre Mini Note Cards with 925 Silver Pencil 1012h27
Located in Dix hills, NY
Date Code/Serial Number: H in a Square Made In: France Measurements: Length: 2" Width: .2" Height: 3" OVERALL VERY GOOD CONDITION ( 8/10 or AB ) Signs of Wear: Exterior Leather...
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20th Century Fashion

Richilene for Elizabeth Arden 1970s Blue Sheer Silk Midi Dress
Located in Sparks, NV
Gorgeous sheer washy Atlantic blue silk midi dress by Richilene for Elizabeth Arden. This dress features long sheer balloon sleeves, a ruffled collar and full sweep triple layered sk...
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1970s American Fashion

1970s Bohemian Floral Printed Dress
Located in San Francisco, CA
1970's bohemian aqua floral printed full length dress with a plunging neckline, full ruffled bell sleeves, an applied empire-waist sash that ties over the back zipper closure.
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1960s Fashion

Vintage 1920s Blue Floral Cotton Dress
Located in London, GB
A lovely vintage dress for Summer. In a turquoise blue with a floral print, the dress has a drop waist, pintucks on the shoulders and blue banding along the neckline, cuffs and drop ...
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1920s British Fashion

Vintage 1950s Electric Blue Cocktail Dress
Located in London, GB
A charming and chic cocktail dress from the 1950's. In a wonderful electric blue colour, the dress has a scoop neckline at the front , and a deep v neckline at the back. The dress ha...
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1950s Unknown Fashion

1940s Lilli Ann Black and White Avant Garde Wool Vintage 40s Peplum Jacket Coat
Located in San Diego, CA
Chic 1940 LILLI ANN black and white Avant Garde wool jacket ! Features the finest soft wool fabric that was imported from France. Fabric covered buttons up the front. Flared honeyco...
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1940s American Fashion

1990s Jean Paul Gaultier Faux Fur Denim Aviator Bomber Vintage 90s Crop Jacket
Located in San Diego, CA
Rare vintage 90s JEAN PAUL GAULTIER denim + faux fur aviator style cropped jean jacket ! Tailored bodice with JPG embossed button up the front center. Can be worn multiple ways. In ...
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1990s Italian Fashion

Blue Dyed Mongolian Lamb + Sheared Rabbit Fur Jacket
Located in Sparks, NV
Vintage 1980s dyed cobalt blue fur bomber jacket in sheared rabbit and Mongolian lamb by Élan from the estate of Pamela Lewis (Jerry Lewis/ Gary Lewis). Fully lined with front zip cl...
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1980s Chinese Fashion

Vintage Faconnable Eyeglasses
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Faconnable eyeglasses. Vintage glasses Faconnable circa 1980s Glasses are delivered without a case. Have an optician adjust your glasses correctly so that they fit well. New ...
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1980s Italian Fashion

JM Gidding & Co Beige Wild Silk Dust Jacket USA Circa 1910
Located in Toulon, FR
Circa 1910 United-States JM Gidding & Co Fifth Avenue at 46th Street NY Circa 1910. Wide coat, crossed front with button ball passes with recall on the fla...
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1910s American Fashion

JM Gidding & Co Beige Wild Silk Dust Jacket USA Circa 1910
JM Gidding & Co Beige Wild Silk Dust Jacket USA Circa 1910
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Size: Equivalent French size 38
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1930s Rare Women's Dark Blue Wool Bathing Suit Designed by Jansen New Vintage
Located in University City, MO
1930s Extremely rare women's dark blue wool bathing suit designed by Jansen New - Vintage The vintage 1930s bathing suit is constructed with heavy ga...
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1930s American Fashion

1930s Art Deco Cobalt Blue Sunglasses
Located in San Francisco, CA
1930's Art Deco cobalt blue glass lensed sunglasses with brass frame and celliloid tipped arms. The lenses are oversized to capture the full frame of v...
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1930s Fashion

1930S Sapphire Blue Silk Velvet Smocked Ruffle Bow Neck Cape
Located in New York, NY
1930S Sapphire Blue Silk Velvet Smocked Ruffle Bow Neck Cape
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1930s Fashion

1930S Blue Cotton Chambray French Workwear Shirt With South American Embroidered
Located in New York, NY
1930S Blue Cotton Chambray French Workwear Shirt With South American Embroidered Patches
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1930s Fashion

1930S Blue Cotton Men's French Workwear Distressed Patchwork Overalls
Located in New York, NY
1930S Blue Cotton Men's French Workwear Distressed Patchwork Overalls
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1930s Fashion

1930S Sapphire Blue Bias Cut Silk Velvet Gown With Burnout Sleeves & Back As-I
Located in New York, NY
1930S Sapphire Blue Bias Cut Silk Velvet Gown With Burnout Sleeves & Back As-Is For Design
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1930s Fashion

Vintage 1930's Sapphire Blue Silk-Velvet Sheer Ruffle Sleeves Bias-Cut Deco Gown
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
There are lots of lovely 1930's garments still around, but every once in a while I come across one that sets my heart a flutter! This is an extraordinarily beautiful and exceptional ...
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1930s American Fashion

Vintage 1930's Cobalt Blue Stripe Metallic Lamé Silk Bias-Cut Hourglass Gown
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A luxurious cobalt-blue shimmer lamé evening dress from the "Old Hollywood" era of glamour. The bodice has a seductive sculpted plunge and low-backside. The gorgeous deco stripe patt...
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1930s American Fashion

1930s Blue Sequins Bolero Jacket
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Beautiful 1930s blue sequin bolero crops jacket. Size 2/4 for small
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1930s French Fashion

Jean Patou Velvet Evening cape, Circa 1935
Located in Toulon, FR
Circa 1930/1940 France Long evening green emerald velvet cape labelled from the House Jean Patou and dating from the 1930s. Matching green silk satin lining. Sleeveless but shoulders...
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1930s French Fashion

Jean Patou Velvet Evening cape, Circa 1935
Jean Patou Velvet Evening cape, Circa 1935
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Size: Equivalent french size 38/40
Vintage Blue Silk Chiffon Gown
Located in London, GB
A stunning silk chiffon gown in a wonderful vibrant blue . The gown has puff sleeves , gathering over the bust and a wide sash waistband. It has a ...
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1930s Unknown Fashion

Gump’s Print Hawaiian Vintage Dress
By Gump's San Francisco
Located in Carmel, CA
Gump's vintage 1930s dress features a turquoise and black print throughout with a V-neckline and an asymmetric peplum waist. From the estate of Mr...
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1930s American Fashion

Fashion: Shop Vintage Clothing, Haute Couture and More

Fashion is littered with stories we can’t help but consume with voracity. Behind the world’s revered luxury houses and designers, there are often accounts of modest beginnings that gave way to the resonant work we’ve cherished all of our lives.

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel learned to sew under the tutelage of nuns in an orphanage. Later, as an impoverished teenager at a boarding school in central France, clad in the drab clothes of the underclass compared to those of her classmates, she furthered her needlework skills. By the early 1900s, she was helming a hat shop with help from her sister and her aunt.

Chanel made spare, unadorned hats at first, and the now-momentous “little black dress,” published in the form of a sketch in Vogue in 1926, symbolized her intention to design for all social classes. Working with simple lines and ordinary fabrics, Chanel created garments that she hoped would encourage women to leave extravagant clothes behind. The young milliner would soon become pivotal to the evolution of both covetable casual wear and handmade high-fashion apparel, building a brand that has influenced countless designers all over the world.

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only,” Chanel said. “Fashion is in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”

Around the same time, a young former hotel bellboy named Guccio Gucci began to sell imported leather luggage from a small retail space in his native Florence, and it wouldn’t be long before he was overseeing a number of artisans who were making leather goods and other accessories. With the help of his sons, he opened a second shop in Rome and later launched his handbags, wallets and more.

There are people like Chanel and Gucci, sometimes of meager means, working in near obscurity to create lasting and innovative garments and accessories that today fill the interiors of our favorite boutiques and, ultimately, the closets of our home.

There are family-owned luxury-goods companies, such as Hermès in Paris, which began as a saddle manufacturer in the 1800s, serving the era’s carriage trade before it would expand to include venerable handbags as well as its numerous silk scarves, each emblazoned with a richly decorative design.

For many of us, the narratives behind the ornate monograms that adorn these iconic works are just as important as the items themselves.

Haute couture from the House of Chanel — practical, form-fitting evening dresses and menswear made of fine tweeds — has a long lineage, but now it’s earned a legitimate place in museums as often as it has in the homes of modern marquee influencers. Vintage Yves Saint Laurent leather clutches and handbags couldn’t have aged better over time, either. The French luxury fashion label’s long history of vibrant, gender-blurring designs, including the revolutionary Mondrian minidress in 1965, owe to the creative inclinations of a young Yves, who made paper dolls as a child and designed dresses for the women in his family by the time he was a teenager.

The appeal of vintage and designer clothing — whether it’s nostalgia for ’80s fashion treasures like oversize blazers or the bright and elaborate patterns that characterize sundresses of the 1960s — endures, and our appetite for irreplaceable garments as well as their riveting origin stories won’t recede anytime soon. An authentic handbag or purse from Hermès isn’t merely durable and alluring. The Birkin, for example, is hand-sewn according to Hermès’s centuries-old saddle-stitching technique, comes in a variety of exotic leathers and is also a savvy investment.

“The Birkin’s value has consistently risen and never fluctuated downward,” says Reece Morgan, head of handbags and accessories for Xupes, citing the fact that “production has been highly limited to maintain its unattainable aura.” In fact, he adds, Hermès has been “scaling back production each year.”

Today, we’re captivated by the work of prodigious Illinois-born talent Virgil Abloh, who not only triumphed in the fashion world with his Milan-based streetwear label Off-White, but was also a visual artist, a furniture designer and more. In 2018, Abloh, who learned about fashion from his seamstress mother, became one of the first Black designers to head a French luxury fashion house, having secured an artistic director role at Louis Vuitton.

“His clothing turns wearers into accomplices of his grand artistic scheme,” Michael Darling, the chief curator at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, wrote of Abloh’s work.

On 1stDibs, you can revel in the stories behind the fashion we love and browse everything from classic, one-of-a-kind gowns crafted by Parisian couturiers to stylish, modern streetwear designed by forward-looking brands. Shop 19th-century Louis Vuitton trunks or kaleidoscopic and colorful 1960s skirts by Emilio Pucci or edgy ensembles by visionary designers like Azzedine Alaïa. Your fashion journey begins right here.

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