• This jumpsuit dates to the Spring 1981 Bill Tice collection.
• It was made under the creative direction of Bill Tice.
• I love that we found a fashion illustration of the piece that appeared in WWD that season. It adds that extra little bit of history to the piece.
• This is one of my favourite Bill Tice prints. Pieces with this particular pattern are tough to find and this little jumpsuit is super special. It is only the second one I have ever seen and the first is one that I sold several years ago in the shop.
• His easy-to-wear and glamorous pieces have been worn by countless celebrities for the red carpet and events. Every girl that has bought one of his pieces through me has absolutely loved them. This jumpsuit is exceptional example of his work.
• This is one of those great little pieces that you will only ever find with vintage.
• The jumpsuit is made out of a light as air scarf weight tissue silk that is printed with an oversized print on a soft pink-peach base. The fabric choice makes it extremely comfortable to wear and it drapes and falls incredibly on the body. It weighs ounces and when you put it on it feel like you are wearing almost nothing.
• The front is a single piece of fabric that is piped around the edges. The piping extends out into ties that you tie behind the neck to hold the halter in place.
• This leaves the entire back and sides completely bare and exposed.
• The waist is detailed with a wide band that has his signature top stitching and a bit of padding inside the layers to give it some support and detail. I love how it buttons with the little silk covered buttons at the back.
• From there it curves over the hips and into long pant legs that are cut wide and full through the legs. The pants are extraordinary. As they reach the bottom hem they are cinched back in and gathered through the seam at the bottom. This creates a balloon / harem effect that is just fantastic. And it has pockets. 
• It is extraordinarily well done and very sexy yet so easy and comfortable to wear.
• The jumpsuit is unlined and buttons to close at the back of the waist with three silk covered buttons. There is one hidden snap in the opening under that. It ties at the back of the neck and is gathered in at the cuffs. It appears to have been worn very little if at all.
• Tagged a vintage Bill Tice 8
• Excellent condition. 

Bust: 16" across at its widest point from side to side
Top seam at waist: 14" flat across from side seam to side seam
Bottom Seam at waist: 13.5" flat across from side seam to side seam
Hips: to 24" flat across from side seam to side seam
Bodice: adjustable with the tie but approx 13" from neck to top seam of the band at waist
Pants: 47" from the top of the band at the waist to hem. The inseam is 32" and the gusset is 15.5" from bottom back seam of the waist band to the inside seam. 

Modern Sizing Equivalent: XS-SML

Item# DD5803

This garment has been professionally cleaned, pressed and is odor free. Thoroughly checked over before shipping, it will be ready to wear upon arrival.

• This dress is from 1978.
• It was made under the creative direction of Roy Halston Frowick.
• I am always on the look out for this style of dress by Halston. It is perhaps the most iconic of all of the Halston silhouettes.
• In 2016 the twin of this dress entered modern day fashion history when Kate Moss wore its twin on the red carpet at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. 
• We have had Martha Hunt wear a white one version that she sourced from us to Cannes. She landed on several Best Dressed lists as a result. These were made in a variety of colours and this one is a gorgeous red coral colour with a slight orange undertone to it. 
• There is a certain sexiness caused by the illusion of having the entire dress suspended by one shoulder. It gives the sense that the entire dress could drop in a puddle around you.
• It is constructed from two attached layers. The inner dress skims over the body in a long sheath. The inner part of the dress has a high slit that travels up the side of the leg opposite to the draped side. So when you walk or sit you get a flash of leg.
• Attached to that inner sheath lies a draped panel of the same fabric that is suspended from the shoulder. This falls from that shoulder and drapes down and over the front and the back of the dress so that the jersey cascades loosely down and over you.
• This is a classic dress by Halston that is perfect for travelling as it is wash and wear and so easy to style. A quick change of shoe takes it day to night in a snap.
• The dress slips on to wear with a hook at the top of one shoulder. It should fit a variety of sizes since it is not cut to be super fitted and the jersey does have some stretch. I have put the comfortable range of stretch of the inner part of the dress below. Part of the hem was sewn by hand and it has been left as found.
• Tagged a vintage Halston 8
• Excellent condition

Bust: 16-19" flat across from side seam to side seam
Waist: 18-20" flat across from side seam to side seam
Hip: to 20" flat across from side seam to side seam
Total length: 54" from top of shoulder to longest point of hem
Slit: 29" from hem up

Modern Sizing Equivalent: XS-MED

Item# DD5804

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• This dress is from the Spring 2005 Cavalli collection
• It was made under the creative direction of Roberto Cavalli
• For that season Cavalli based everything shown on the 'Fashion Traveller' Theme and Vogue proclaimed that to mean "an eclectic throwing-together of hippie-ish trailing print skirts, ruffled cavalier shirts (worn belted at the hip as tantalizing dresses), and nineteenth century Sgt. Pepper-ish frogged military jackets."
• On the runway this same print in a soft taupe brown was shown on Looks 23 and 25. 
• The dress is made of a bias cut silk that is covered with that beautiful abstract coral print on an ivory backdrop. Parts of the print have been deliberately 'aged' with tiny speckles of the coral splashing on them and a touch of lighter and darker corals mixed in. Bits of taupe are also worked in to create an antiqued feed to the incredible pattern that you see.
• The print is very detailed and quite beautiful. I love how the pattern is set to accentuate the curves of the body underneath the dress and build on the cut of the dress itself.
• The dress is suspended from two tiny straps in the same silk that curve up to tie behind the neck. The entire upper back is left bare and exposed and the front comes down in a soft drape. There is a little suspended weight that hangs inside the front drape to help hold it in place and there is a slight gathering on either side of the seams to add to that drape feel at the front.
• The dress curves in slightly at the waist and then curves back out over the hips. Everything is cut on the bias and there are no horizontal seams to break the pattern or the lines of the dress.
• The lower skirt flares out fantastically. It is the type of skirt that makes people obsessed with Cavalli pieces.
• The skirt is set in angles that point upwards into the hip area. Attached to follow the angles are silk chiffon ruffles. What is amazing about the ruffles is how they go up and down on angles to follow sections underneath from where they begin below the hip to all the way to the hem.
• The front angles upwards so that when you walk you get a flash of leg. At the back the skirt falls longer for a beautiful slight sweep behind you. 
• The incredible layers of ruffles are what give the fullness to the lower skirt. The extra fabric also gives you wonderful movement as you walk. 
• The dress is unlined and slips over the head to wear with no closures. It ties at the back of the neck. A little metal weight is hand sewn in a silk pouch along the edge of the front neckline. I see one tiny mark on the front neckline. The fabric has the darkening all through it and it is an intentional part of the print as described above but I have shown it in the same photo as the small mark so you can see what I am talking about. Once on, that small round mark falls inside the neck line and is not seen. The fabric is bias cut so will just drape more on a smaller frame. I have put the comfortable range of measurements below.
• Tagged a vintage Cavalli S
• Excellent condition with the minor note above.

Bust: the front covers up to 17.5" flat across from side to side
Waist: 14-16" flat across from side seam to side seam
Hips: 19-22.5" flat across from side seam to side seam
Total length: approximately 66" from the neck to the longest part of the hem and can be adjusted a bit by how you tie it around the neck.

Modern Sizing Equivalent: XS-MED

Item# DD5805

All items are thoroughly checked over before shipping. Unless noted everything in our shop has been professionally cleaned. All sales are final. Overseas clients will be emailed to obtain agreement to our final sales policy before the order is shipped as per our return policy.