1970s Unlabeled One Shoulder Black Lightweight Jersey Nylon Dress designer-balestra-roma Yves designed these "poetic taffeta

Yves designed these "poetic taffeta gowns in what might be termed a Proustian vein" is what the book states

5" of the total

She had moved to the US from Paris in 1937 and her designs always have that bit of a French feel to them

From her couture label and it is almost a sin that her dresses can be priced at such a reasonable number

It wraps and hooks into place and has a signature mirrored piece set at the waist for detail

1970s Unlabeled One Shoulder Black Lightweight Jersey Nylon Dress designer-balestra-roma Yves designed these "poetic taffetaMuch like the Haslton dresses that I look for all the time, this has that same iconic one shoulder silhouette. There is a certain sexiness caused by the illusion of having the entire dress suspended by buttons at the shoulder. It gives the sense that undoing those buttons would cause the entire dress to drop in a puddle around you (which it would). It is constructed from two attached layers. The inner dress is cut from the same synthetic nylon jersey