When the fashion industry returned to more flowing garments cut on the bias in the early 1970s, Charles Kleibacker had been working with this complex technique for more than a decade and was thus able to garner a discerning clientele, as with this celadon green silk crepe dress from 1979.
Green Crepe Gown, 1979
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Photograph courtesy of the Kent State University Museum
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