1950s Maurice Original Draped Silk Dress designer-luis-estevez A full three piece

A full three piece

The sleeves are full with long slim cuffs to emphasize the fullness above

I love the contrasting border that defines and anchors the cut of the dress and highlights the front plunge

You can see his future love of adding luxe details with the snakeskin trim at the neckline of this piece

The sleeves are fantastically full and billow out until they are cinched in at the buttoned tight

1950s Maurice Original Draped Silk Dress designer-luis-estevez A full three pieceI highly suspect that this is an early Bill Blass design. It has that feel and look of his early work. He joined the maurice label in 1958 and there was a short time where the label was still being produced without his name on it. I beleiev that this is from that time. In any case it is a startingly beautiul dress that is exquisitely constrcuted and unusual as well . It retains only its Maurice Retner Original label and is made of a beautiful rich