1950s Beaded & Hand Painted Mexican Circle Skirt designer-balenciaga Item# DD1008

Item# DD1008

Made of a fine wool knit whose top is a thicker ribbed knit that turns into the finer knit skirt

All the seams inside have finished edges

This Rive Gauche version would have been based on that Haute Couture gown from the 1977-78 collection

It closes with huge jeweled buttons offset as was the flapper fashion

1950s Beaded & Hand Painted Mexican Circle Skirt designer-balenciaga Item# DD1008A spectacular 1950s hand painted Mexican circle skirt that is also heavily beaded along the edges of the design. The skirt is on a cream cotton base with the most amazing scenes that circle the entire skirt. The series of painting depict what appears to be a cock fight with a brilliant red painted background highlighting the drama of the scene. After the design was painted onto the skirt the edges were all outline by hand with beads most a jet black