Stunning Antique 1920\'s Sophisticated Cocktail Flapper Dress W/Profuse Beading
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Stunning Antique 1920\'s Sophisticated Cocktail Flapper Dress W/Profuse Beading:
$74.99
Presenting a stunning 1920\'s cocktail dress. I obtained this dress from a 85 year old clock collector that repairs and maintains clocks. He is originally from Detroit where he learned the clock trade from his father. His father a clock & repair shop in Detroit. A large part of his business was visiting homes to maintained clocks in the Boston-Edison area of Detroit. One of the homes was the home of Charles T. & Sara Fisher. This dress was owned by Sara Fisher. I do not know the specifics of how he obtained the dress but wholly believe the gentleman\'s story as he is of the highest integrity and nothing to gain from his story. It does not make this dress any more valuable but the story is interesting and most likely factual so necessary to pass on to the new owner. Charles T. Fisher along with his brother Fred and his Uncle Albert Fisher were instrumental in forming The Fisher Body Company...eventually creating the slogan \"Body by Fisher\" for General Motors. Charles eventually became Vice President of General Motors. More information will follow the description of the dress.
This very tasteful and sophisticated cocktail dress is profusely decorated in fine beading and several layered flowers. Other than the shoulder strap damage the dress although delicate is all there. There are some scattered holes and a few stains. The dress unsnaps at the seam on one side from the waist to the armpit allowing ease of on and off. All snaps accounted for and working. The beading is absolutely phenomenal and certainly some of the finest detail I have ever seen. Amazingly I haven\'t found any missing beading. If you look at the rhinestones at the V pattern at the back neck there is what looks like a missing rhinestone. There is actually a tear with the rhinestone attached hanging by a thread. All said there could be few others missing but not readily apparent. To the left of the pencil tip is a stain and to the right of the pencil 2 tears.
Please enlarge the photos to view the bead work. We find all of the beading gorgeous and the tiny beaded flowers at the waist.... breathtaking.
I consider the dress a display piece for the collector and too delicate to wear. It is light peach in color and petite in to shoulder at straps . 15\" Chest from under armpit to under arm pit . 13\" Waist across...25 or 26\" waist. 20\" from waist to hem.
We are limited to 12 photos so if you are interested and need more please request. I will be happy to send as many as you like. I have added some additional information regarding Charles & Sara Fisher.
Charles Thomas Fisher was born on February 16, 1880 in Norwalk, Ohio and was an American businessman and an automotive pioneer.
The Fisher family would grow to include seven boys and four girls. At the turn of the 20th century, eldest son Fred was the first to move to Detroit where an uncle, Albert Fisher, had established Standard Wagon Works during the latter part of the 1880s. A year later Charles Fisher joined his brother as an employee at the C. R. Wilson Company, a manufacturer of horse-drawn carriage bodies who were just beginning to construct bodies for the automobile makers.
With the fledgling automobile business about to emerge as a major industry, together with their uncle Albert, on July 23, 1908 Charles and Fred Fisher founded the Fisher Body Company. Soon, they brought their five younger male siblings into the business. Highly successful, the Fishers expanded their operation into Canada, setting up a plant in Walkerville, Ontario and by 1914 their company had grown to become the world\'s largest manufacturer of auto bodies.
In 1919, the Fisher brothers sold sixty percent of their company to General Motors Corporation (GM). In 1926, Fisher Body Company became a subsidiary division of General Motors when the brothers sold their remaining forty percent and Charles Fisher was appointed a GM Vice-President.
In 1922, Fisher built a home at 670 W. BoBoston- Edison area of Detroit, where he lived until his death in 1963. In 1926, the Fishers sold their remaining shares for 208 million dollars, making Fisher Body wholly owned by GM. Charles became a vice-president of GM, leaving in 1934. The next year, the Fisher brothers began building the magnificent Fisher Building, one of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the country, on Grand Boulevard a mile south of Fisher became involved in the breeding and racing of Thoroughbred horses. In 1928 he purchased the famous Dixiana Farm near Lexington, Kentucky which remained in his family for approximately 60 years.
Charles Fisher was also a yachting enthusiast and owned several power yachts including the 153 foot \"Saramar III\" built in 1930 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan.
Charles Fisher and his wife Sarah had five children. Son Charles Jr. became president of the National Bank of Detroit and a director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation during World War II.
In 1995, Charles T. Fisher was posthumously inducted in the Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn, Michigan.
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Stunning Antique 1920\'s Sophisticated Cocktail Flapper Dress W/Profuse Beading:
$74.99