1950s Hermes dress

I don’t know very much about these fashions, except that they were captioned ‘Hermes Dresses, 1952’.  I love the idea of all the detail being drawn on, although I’m not sure they would look quite this fabulous in real life rather than on super-glamorous 50s models!

Does anyone know anything about the back-story to these pictures?

1950s Hermes dress

1950s Hermes dress 1950s Hermes dress 1950s Hermes dress 1950s Hermes dress 1950s Hermes dress 1950s Hermes dress 1950s Hermes dress 1950s Hermes dress 1950s Hermes dress

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