Incredible 1960s Sybil Connolly Couture Pale Lavender Ruffled Silk Gauze Dress designer-michaele-vollbracht / (3) Andie MacDowell for

/  (3) Andie MacDowell for Yves Saint Laurent

Waist: 14" flat across from side seam to side seamHips: to 19" flat across from side seam to side seamLength: 43" from waist to hem

This was Look 15 in the Fall 2017 show and was one of two looks in the show that had this fringing detail

elaborately embroidered

Incredible 1960s Sybil Connolly Couture Pale Lavender Ruffled Silk Gauze Dress designer-michaele-vollbracht / (3) Andie MacDowell forSybil Connolly was based in Dublin and she was known for creating fashion from Irish textiles especially linens that she used both with and without pleats. Her first major US fashion show was in 1953. She quickly became a darling of the American market and was dubbed by the media as 'Dublin's Dior'. Jacqueline Kennedy wore Connolly for her official White House portrait and Connolly was a particular favorite of Carmen Snow, the editor of Harper's