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30s 'Ava' Tea Dress - Bloomsbury

This 1930s tea dress has a most flattering cut and is influenced by the the late 30s dress styles worn from 1938 through into the 1940s wartime period.
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Our favourite late 1930s dress in limited edition, in 1930s print 'Bloomsbury'. This could be the perfect dress for pretty much all shapes! We love the flattering V neck, cap sleeves, fitted waistband and flared skirt. 

Another winning combination of top quality craftmanship combined with a plethora of 1930s features and topped off with a vintage style fabric that behaves as it should. This is one of our all time best selling styles that we have not held back on vintage detailing.

This is a most flattering cut and is influenced by the the late 1930s dress styles worn from 1938 through into the wartime period. This dress has been designed to be as faithful as possible to these styles.

Print is a reproduction of a 1930s original - white based with stylised floral details in pink, purple, forest green, blue and teal. This dress will take you right through all seasons when paired with correct accessories. Wear with tights and boots and a woolly cardi in cooler days or free and flowing with sandals when warmer. This dress will work all seasons!

Dress has a high back neckline which hugs the back of the neck but allows the deep plunging cross over neckline to remain demure and not too revealing. Bodice of dress is based on an original vintage 1930s nightwear garment and as a result has authentic detailed shirring gathers into the shoulder. The cute cap sleeves hug the shoulder and create an elegant silhouette. Gathers under bust creates a flattering line into a slimming fit around the waist through the fitted waistband. With a sweeping lined 7-gore skirt to float you through any tea dance. 

Key Features Include:-
- plunge neckline
- top stitching on shirring at shoulder and waist
- sweeping 7-gore skirt
- side zip
- lined skirt

The fabrics is a mid weight 100% rayon (viscose) and as such gathers beautifully into yokes and under bust - is similar to the fabrics worn at this time. Lining is a woven viscose.

Proudly made in the UK 

Fabric: 100% Viscose throughout
Washing instructions: dry clean only (we recommend dry cleaning due to the bias cut panels in the skirt & skirt lining which can become mis-shapen after washing and in particular line drying)
Length from natural waist: approx 25 inches

Care Instructions

Dry Clean

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Jan BENDING (Alnwick, GB)
Gorgeous dress

This dress is gorgeous and of excellent quality.
Comes up small in size in bust fit.

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Tamara Raskin (San Diego, US)
Love these original Ava Dresses

Another great original-style Ava dress. I was glad to get this in the Bloomsbury print since I hadn’t got anything in that print the first time around. Love it!

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Zafiro Jones (Greenwich, GB)
Gorgeous dress

It fits perfectly and I love the material and how it hangs and flows on your body. A gorgeous dress! Delivery was faster than I expected.

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