If you’re lucky enough to be the recipient of an unexpected financial windfall of, ooooh, let’s say, $9,000, any self-respecting financial advisor would strongly urge you to act sensibly and invest your riches in a stock market index fund or a blue-chip stock with a solid record of dividends.

I’ve never once heard Suze Orman or any other financial whiz suggest that you splurge on something outrageously rare, beautiful and stunning like today’s VPOD. But that’s what I’d want to do.

This vintage 1910′s silk tunic by Madeleine Cheruit is simply exquisite. Trained in the 1880s at the couture house of Raudnitz, in Paris, Madeleine Cheruit created for many aristocratic clients and her work is highly regarded alongside the likes of Vionnet, Lanvin and Worth.

In this piece, she transforms a simple design from ordinary to extraordinary with an asymmetric closure and outstanding embroidery and beadwork. There’s no machine sewing here! Every bead, every sequin, every stitch would have been done by hand.

It’s still in very good condition one hundred years later and it’s provenance is known. That’s a picture of the garment’s first owner taken in the 1920s.

What an investment-worthy find for a vintage fashionista!

Available from Kakkoii Mono.

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