Vintage 1950s Blouse Shirt Elsie Whiteley Lace White Black Floral M

This is a fab Elsie Whiteley Lace Blouse, with glass pearl buttons, very very collectable vintage piece.

Bust: up to 36 inches
Length: 22 inches

This is in very good vintage condition, the only flaw being that one of the pearl buttons is missing at the bottom.

Elsie Whiteley (1903-1972) is well known in West Yorkshire as Halifax’s pioneering fashion designer and textile entrepreneur. She was born in 1903 and started work at age 12, as a machinist at a local mill, while still studying at school.

In 1929 she started her own dressmaking business from her sitting room at home and was so successful that she was soon running a busy factory.