1940s Check Dress w Cape designer-scott-barrie Judy sent a note with

Judy sent a note with this one to let me know that the only reason this one was leaving her closet was that the jersey makes it warm for most days in Dallas and she loved it so much that it was making her sad to have to just look at it - her warm weather woes are definitely our gain

However once on it settles into place and is not unwieldy to wear at all

trees and florals screened into the velvet

Pockets lie hidden along the seams of the front for an extra bit of chic

1940s Check Dress w Cape designer-scott-barrie Judy sent a note withThis is everything you want in a 1940s piece, it's a fitted, sexy and made of checked wool number that is out of this world! It has that perfect understated, yet extremely dramatic line that pieces in the forties seemed to walk with ease. The dress is a almost dolman sleeve with rounded and slightly paddd shoulders. It buttons with little navy early plastic buttons and then nips in dramatically in at the waist The side pockets are very full and