Pleated top with vinyl floral print

Description

***************END OF SUMMER SALE******************
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Old Price: 88USD NEW PRICE: 58 USD

This pleated top is made for the high waisted look. The pleats are stitched one by one. The fabric is dyed by hand as well and the print is placed on the skirt by a professional textile printer, afterwards the print is cut open carefully, also by hand. This is a wide fitting top and the bottom looks best if it accentuates the waist tightly. See http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=23495807 for the whole look.

Sizes available:
S: Chest:102cm /40 inch
Length:106cm/ 42 inch (from Highest shoulder point)

XL: Chest:116cm / 46 inch
Length: 112cm/ 44inch (from Highest shoulder point)

State your size in message to seller.

If you have different sizes, and you're interested, I can set the dress form to your sizes and check&photograph it for you.

The top is washable(cold to normal temp), but you shouldn't leave it wet in the machine for hours. You can iron it medium to hot temp. wash with similar colours.

Inspiration:
I looked at the Dutch and German tradition, where girls have a pretty little booklet called a poeziealbum(poetry album) which they hand out to family and friends to write in a poem for them. It originates from Germany and now at birthday parties, girls aged between 4-12 ask everyone to write in their album. The pictures that originally belong to this tradition, and that are often still used, are the "poetry pictures" and still look old fashioned, often floral themed. A fantastic link I found through wikipeadia shows Jacoba Westlaak's original one from 1890. http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~mol/photoalbum/index.php?v=list&p=poeziealbum_1890 . This shows the tradition very well. I won a dutch fsahion prize with this collection.

Added on Nov 07, 2009