1960s Laura Ashley Green Print Dress designer-pierre-cardin Onto the lace are hundreds

Onto the lace are hundreds of hand applied paste rhinestones so the dress has a bit of glitter and glitz

It closes with a back zipper and ties around the neck at the front

The dress itself is extraordinary

the inner waist band and along the hem of the skirt

Stunning Claudia Young silk dress with strong lines and a beautiful "dragon" scale print in the silk

1960s Laura Ashley Green Print Dress designer-pierre-cardin Onto the lace are hundredsI stumbled across this little excerpt on marieclare. co. uk from june 2015 on the impact that the Laura Ashley label had and it really was worth posting here with this dress: "Housewives everywhere became hooked on Laura Ashley's romantic silhouettes and floral drenched prints in the 1970s. The Edwardian style dresses and vintage look fabrics divided opinion amongst the more fashion forward at the time. 'They're not particularly clothes for making a