Deconstructing: bias cut dresses The National Does anyone feel like 1930's vintage bias cut dresses are good silhouettes for FN ? : r Kibbe Cutting the Bias: Madeleine Vionnet Bias cut gowns are part of 1920s revival for spring cleveland.com 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 Bias cut gown, Rose Amado, c. 1935, Goldstein Museum of Design.