1930s Fashion Styles Vintage Sewing Pattern Company Bias cut gown, Rose Amado, c. 1935, Goldstein Museum of Design. Deconstructing: bias cut dresses The National 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