Zoë Belkin

The Satin Dress

A fashion advertisement of a woman living her best life in her new satin dress.

“Inspired by the poem "The Satin Dress", by Dorothy Parker, this illustration depicts a fashion advertisement for the fictional fashion brand, "Silk Dress". It depicts a woman luxuriating in a long satin dress, sipping a martini. The Satin DressNeedle, needle, dip and dart, Thrusting up and down,Where's the man could ease a heartLike a satin gown?See the stitches curve and crawlround the cunning seams-Patterns thin and sweet and smallAs a lady's dreams.Wantons go in bright brocades;Brides in organdie;Gingham's for the plighted maid; Satin's for the free!Wool's to line a miser's chest;Crape's to calm the old;Velvet hides an empty breast;Satin's for the bold!Lawn is for a bishop's yoke; Linen's for a nun;Satin is for wiser folk-Would the dress were done!Satin glows in candle-light-Satin's for the proud!They will say who watch at night, "What a fine shroud!"-Dorothy Parker, "Enough Rope"”