No, not today's foreign policy development.A while ago I showed a 60s shift which was used as a canvas for a Persian illustration-style print. The square cut of the dress complimented the window-like frame of the print.
A little earlier in time, say the late 50s, the cuts of dresses didn't quite work with such extravagant views. A few textile-producers seem to have gone in for fragmented samples of small miniature illustrations instead. They use simplified elements from miniature painting to create an overall Oriental-atomic pattern. Like this:
In this skirt:
Just recently I was fascinated to see similar prints used in two day dresses currently offered by Hatfeathers Vintage on Ebay. Like the pink skirt, they have scattered vignettes interspersed with more abstract ornament:
These framed pictures themselves are a bit of an expansion on 40s-era Thief of Baghdad inspired prints, which usually only use free-floating figures or a repeating free ornamental pattern (of which more later).
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