1930s Joanie Bias Cut Dress Ebony Satin Black Madeleine Vionnet is typically credited with inventing bias cutting. It's actually untrue. Cutting on the bias had been in use long before, typically for things like ruffles, and by the start of The bias cut and Madeleine Vionnet Europeana Vintage Satin Bias Cut Dress S G O S S A M E R Madeleine Vionnet, Example of a dress cut 'across the bias', silk, 1929. Download Scientific Diagram