1980s high end designer Peggy Jennings sage green silk gown with lace trim. Bishop sleeves, wide lace cuffs. Ruffled off the shoulder panel with silk flower applications with ribbons, one has come lose but I will leave it because I kinda like it that way the other is tied in a bow. Buttermilk yellow almost gold silk sash. I have put a lot of TLC into this gown, the lace has some signs of age in discoloration not tears. I soaked it but was too scared to scrub the lace anymore. I had the elastic at the shoulders and cuffs replaced. Now she is ready!
Great Vintage Condition, some staining on the lace.
Laundered and Ready to Wear
Laid Flat:
15.5" Elastic Shoulders
24" Sleeves
18" Pit to Pit
23" Waist
28" Hips
49" Long
Peggy Jennings and her husband/partner, Herbert Kosterlitz, established the new corporation that became Peggy Jennings Designs Inc. Jennings was known for her romantic clothes and couture lingerie, expressed through features such as high necks, satin bows, and her signature antique laces from France and Switzerland.
Throughout her career, Jennings quietly dressed governors’ wives and First Ladies—including Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton—in her dresses and separates made with fine silks, cashmeres, wools, linens, satins, and chiffons, from fine European fabric houses. A devotee of Jennings’ designs noted, “One of Peggy’s things is magnificent fabrics.”
-Vintage Fashion Guild
