Documented Spring 1983 Halston Black One Shoulder Wrap Dress designer-maggy-rouff The silk is like a

The silk is like a matte sharkskin silk and has a unique and wonderful texture with the fabric heavy enough to help keep that structural shape but not heavy enough so that it is in any way uncomfortable to wear

The pattern on the front is a superb with the neckline detailing ringed in a frame of studs set to suggest a leaf like design

Here the nude silk is covered with black net and it is the bet only that wraps over the shoulders and down tot he back

5" from top of shoulder strap to waist

The top is a work of art - it is cut wide across with the sleeves coming out from the waist with extensive gathered detailed so that the drape dramatically down and past the wrist

Documented Spring 1983 Halston Black One Shoulder Wrap Dress designer-maggy-rouff The silk is like aThis is certainly later Halston but still from the time period when he was alive and would have still owned the company. it was featured in an ad for B. Altmans thats ran in Vogue so we have an exact date of 1983. In it you can see his move to more modern fabric and feel of the 1980s in it's cut, while still maintaining his signature simplicity. The silhouette is his classic one shoulder design but inside there is far more structure then his earlier