Kelly Chase Couture - Gown with Bubble Cape 26-658

Kelly Chase Couture style 26-658 is a black sequin dress with cape that arrives as two finished looks in one box. Underneath, a floor-length black velvet column is covered corner to corner in a swirling baroque scroll of black and pewter sequins, reading matte where the pile sits deep and liquid gunmetal wherever the light crosses it. The bodice is princess-seamed and lightly boned and finishes in a softly dipped sweetheart edge; the skirt holds a narrow line through hip and thigh and releases only just above the hem, with no slit and no train to manage. Over it sits a sheer black organza bubble cape whose off-the-shoulder puff sleeves rest on the upper arm and whose two floor-length panels fall the full length of the back. The cape lifts away completely, which is the whole point of the style: one purchase covers the dramatic entrance and then a clean sequin column for dinner and dancing. Shown in Black in sizes 0 through 28 at $4,512.50. The identical dress is also stocked here without the cape as Kelly Chase 26-658, gown only at $3,575.00, so the $937.50 between them is the cape itself. For the same house in other fabrics see 26-657 in long black velvet, 26-652 in black floral brocade, 26-647 with a long sleeve and slit, 23-227, the long-sleeve black sequin gown, 26-649 in dark purple satin, 26-656 in pink and 26-654 in navy tulle, or browse the full Kelly Chase Couture collection and order Kelly Chase fabric swatches.

A formal dress with cape sleeves is one of the hardest things in eveningwear to buy from a photograph, because three of its details only settle on an actual body. The bodice has to hold its own line with nothing holding it up and no hand on it. An allover sequin ground has a direction, so it can only be taken in along the seam; work it through the pattern and the baroque scroll breaks across the waist. And two hems have to be finished to the exact heel you intend to wear, the column and the pair of organza cape panels, because a cape panel hanging a half inch long is the one thing a room notices all evening. That is what a fitting room and an in-house alterations department are for. Jan's Boutique has been dressing the Delaware Valley from 406 Marlton Pike E, Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 since 1974, roughly twenty minutes from Center City Philadelphia: a 13,000 square foot showroom, 50 dressing rooms, more than 15,000 dresses on the floor, and no jan's Boutique sales tax on dresses or alterations. If you are dressing for a black-tie wedding, a gala or charity evening, a mother-of-the-bride or guest-of occasion, a black holiday party dress or New Year's Eve, this is the dress to see on your own frame. Sizes 18 and up are cut in the same style, and evening plus sizes and plus size formal wear run throughout the store, with more dresses with sleeves and capes and current best-selling evening and cocktail styles on the floor now. Call 856-428-8181, book an appointment, check what to expect on your visit or reach us here, and try style 26-658 both ways, cape on and cape off, in front of a mirror.