Vintage Emilio Pucci Purple & Pink Cotton Shirt Waist Dress

This vintage Emilio Pucci dress is a shirtwaist style, very popular in the 1950s and again today. This vintage designer dress has a shirt like bodice with a collar, short sleeves and covered buttons down the center front.  Fitted waist with an accordion pleated full skirt that is below the knee length. The light weight cotton fabric has a retro floral print with aqua and white stripes in the background and pink and purple flowers in the foreground.  Emilio written throughout the cotton fabric.  This vintage 1950s dress is an early example from Emilio Pucci's fashion career, which really hit its hayday in the 1960s with wild retro prints in silk jersey.  This vintage Pucci dress is a piece of fashion history, and is very collectible.