Peach Striped Slip by Mary McFadden

Spaghetti strapped slip dress with floral print and tonal stripes

Circa 1980s

Size L

About Mary McFadden

Mary McFadden (b. 1938 began her design career in 1973 when she started selling hand painted silk dresses at Bendel’s. In 1975 she patented a new pleating technique, which produced a fabric that looked like that of Fortuny, but was made from polyester and in which the pleating was permanent. This fabric became her trademark, along with embroideries and beading.

She established a ready-to-wear line in 1976, but much of the work was done by hand and was quite fine. By the 1980s she had quite a few licensed lines and in the early 1990s she did a line for TV retailer QVC. McFadden unexpectedly went out of business in 2003.