Surely you’ve seen those contests where someone fills a huge jar with jelly beans or M&Ms or marbles and whoever makes the closest guess wins a prize. Well, I’ve always thought it would be fun to do a similar contest but instead of guessing the number of widgets in a jar, you’d be required to guess the number of beads on a vintage beaded dress. Unfortunately, I have yet to find an intern willing to do the actual bead counting for me!

But I thought of this contest idea again when I spied today’s VPOD. There must be thousands of beads on this beauty—so many that surely no one watching you sashay across a room would ever notice the ones that are missing. And the beautiful art deco design? It gets its texture from the interesting mix of silver metal discs, seed beads, bugle beads and sequins.

As if that’s not enough, add in some provenance, too, since this dress is said to have been worn by the granddaughter of Denman Thompson, a well-known vaudeville performer and playwright.

Add it all up and you have a smashing find for a vintage fashionista!

Available at Morning Glorious Vintage.

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