1968 Bill Blass Museum Documented Silver Thread Pattern in Brown Velvet Jacket designer-bonwit-teller Skirt: 49" from waist to

Skirt: 49" from waist to hem

There is a wide inner waist stay that hooks to close and the inner dress zips to close

Unlined and ties at the front

Worked in and among the sequins are brilliantly coloured hand embroidered flowers

The collar is large and oversized

1968 Bill Blass Museum Documented Silver Thread Pattern in Brown Velvet Jacket designer-bonwit-teller Skirt: 49" from waist toBill Blass became the head designer at Maurice Rentner in 1959 and soon after that his name started to appear on the labels. In 1970 he bought out the Maurice Rentner label and re launched it under his own name. These Bill Blass for Maurice Rentner pieces are some of his earliest and you will find many of them, like the twin of this coat, in museum collections throughout the world. A version of the coat was also shot on Verushka that year. It is