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Valentina Olive Gold 100% Habotai Silk Tiered Maxi Dress
Valentina Olive Gold 100% Habotai Silk Tiered Maxi Dress
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✓ Made to order — ready and with you within 3 weeks
✓ Free UK delivery — beautifully gift boxed as standard
✓ Free 30-day returns & size exchanges
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How this dress fits
The Valentina is designed to fall loose and fluid — the tiered skirt follows the body without confining it, so it will feel roomier than a fitted dress. That is the shape, not a sizing error. Take your usual UK size; there is no need to size up. The adjustable straps let you set the bodice exactly where you want it. If you prefer a closer line, size down.
Not your size? Made to measure
This dress is cut in UK 8–14 — but our atelier will make it from a UK 6 to a UK 18, to your own measurements, for £50 more. Ready in the same 3–4 weeks.
Our maxi dresses fall to around 135cm, which is long on a shorter frame. We set the length to you at no extra cost — shorter if you are petite, longer if you intend to wear a heel. And if your bust, waist and hips fall in three different sizes, that is precisely what a commission is for.
Each Valentina Olive Gold is made to order in Vietnam and will be with you within 3 weeks of ordering, including UK delivery time.
Olive Gold is a colour caught between seasons — the warm, golden-green of high summer, lit from within. Hand-finished into pure Habotai silk, it shifts gently as the light moves: soft and shadowed in the cool of the morning, luminous and glowing as the day turns. It is a shade made for golden hours, and the Valentina was designed to live in them.
The Valentina moves the way silk was always meant to — unhurried, weightless, responsive to the lightest turn of air. Cut from 100% Habotai silk and lined in the same pure silk, its tiered maxi silhouette falls in soft, sweeping layers that follow the body without ever confining it. Slender adjustable straps let the bodice settle exactly where it should, while the gentle volume through the skirt lends a romantic ease to every step.
Each dress is hand-finished in Vietnam by artisans working within a silk tradition centuries in the making, and carries the subtle irregularities that distinguish genuine craft from the mass-made. Wear it to a coastal dinner, a destination wedding, or the slow unfolding of a holiday evening — barefoot on warm stone, or elevated with fine gold jewellery and heels. It answers the occasion as readily dressed down as dressed up.
The Valentina is produced in small numbers, made carefully by the same hands from first thread to final stitch. This is slow fashion in its truest form.
- Shell: 100% Habotai silk
- Lining: 100% Habotai silk — the same pure silk throughout, smooth against the skin
- Hand-finished Olive Gold colourway — a warm, luminous golden-green
- Tiered maxi silhouette — loose and fluid by design; take your usual UK size
- Slender adjustable straps for a personalised, comfortable fit
- Softly rounded neckline with a gently scooped back
- Romantic, feminine drape that flatters a range of figures
- Maxi length: approximately 130cm
- Available in UK sizes 8, 10, 12, 14 (US 4–10 · EU 36–42 · DE 34–40)
- Handcrafted in Vietnam by heritage artisan makers
- Made to order — ready and with you within 3 weeks
- Dry clean recommended; gentle hand wash in cool water as an alternative
- Do not tumble dry; hang or lay flat away from direct sunlight
Between two sizes, or would you like a measurement checked before you order? Because each Valentina is made to order, we can measure the garment for you before it is cut. See our size guide for full body measurements and fit notes, or email info@silkandbears.com and we will come back to you personally.
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