Fall 1978 Christian Dior Haute Couture Silk Satin Caped Sleeve Dress designer-halston Bust: approx 24" flat across

Bust: approx 24" flat across from side seam to side seam

It is numbered by hand on one side of the interior

Length: 19" from neck to front waist

The cape is attached at one shoulder and has snaps and hooks to secure it to the other shoulder

The skirt is made of the same pink silk and flows in a series of padded "bubbled" tiers that fall to the floor

Fall 1978 Christian Dior Haute Couture Silk Satin Caped Sleeve Dress designer-halston Bust: approx 24" flat acrossThis is an incredible dress by Marc Bohan for Christian Dior from the 1978 Fall Haute Couture collection. It is very dramatic with extra long, extended and trained sleeves. Gowns like this really define the fantasy nature of Haute Couture. It has both the dated and numbered couture label from the atelier and the original hand written tag from Neiman Marcus where it would have been ordered through directly from the atelier in France. That tag