Although she is best known for her wonderful full skirts , Charlot has had other clothing enterprises . Her last design venture started with a trip to Mexico in 1980 . While in Mexico , Charlot fell in love with the classic Mexican wedding dress . She decided to do up-dated variations on this dress , bought a manufacturing plant in Mexico City to produce them and began exporting the dresses around the world . Everything went well until the 1985 Mexico City earthquake . Her factory collapsed , and though she tried getting her dresses made in New York , it was too expensive and so the business was lost
1985 Mexico City earthquake
1985 Mexico City earthquake
Juli Lynne Charlot