it started as sone thing so beautiful - but a gown that couldn’t be reworn.
An antique 1930s liquid silk-satin wedding gown — heavy, luminous, button-backed — with torn lace and construction no longer sound. Colleema didn’t repair it. She took it apart and authored something new, working from what the gown itself asked for. No house, no era, no trend referenced. Original.
The antique silk stays at the core. The failed lace is gone. In its place: shoulders rebuilt in silk chiffon, and a Grecian line of leaf-lace tracing the collarbone. The skirt is cut high-low over a long satin-and-lace train — and the train bustles three ways, giving three lengths, three volumes, three gowns for three moments of one day.
Not a remake. Not a copy, not an antique silhouette run through a machine. Hand-built with techniques most no longer use, drawn from a single gown that exists nowhere else. One of one — and it cannot be made again.
For the bride who values where a the garment came from as much as where it’s going.
A Colleema Recouture.
Details:
• House: A Colleema Recouture — one of a kind, original hand reconstruction
• Era: Antique 1930s silk-satin foundation, recoutured
• Fabric: Heavy liquid silk satin; silk chiffon; leaf lace
• Color: Ivory / cream
• Silhouette: Fitted bodice, chiffon illusion shoulders, Grecian leaf-lace collar, dropped waist, high-low skirt with convertible 3-way bustling train
• Closure: Silk-satin covered button back
• Size: Fits approximately US 2–4
Condition: These are antique garments, recoutured. Major flaws are always disclosed. But maintaining the integrity of the original means honoring its imperfections — the faint marks, the softening, the small signs of a long life already lived. We won’t compromise the design to chase a spot or hide its age. Every gown is thoroughly cleaned and reconstructed; none is returned to factory-new, because that was never the point. This is not for the bride seeking pristine. It’s for the one who understands the marks are the proof.
Sizing: Generally created small at the outset, and kept that way — this gown fits approximately a US 2–4. Customization is always an option. Please reach out with any sizing questions.
Care: Specialist dry clean only. Store padded or flat, away from light.
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