1980s Fine Geoffrey Beene Iridescent Lace Dress designer-guy-laroche The bodice is boned and

The bodice is boned and it closes with a series of tightly spaced buttons up the back

Its the only one I have ever come across in this amazing color combination and most are just not truly a great candidate to cross over into regular wear - this one is

Proper finished buttonholes and hand finishes

I don't think I have ever fallen so utterly in love with a dress before this one

1980s Fine Geoffrey Beene Iridescent Lace Dress designer-guy-laroche The bodice is boned andThis dress is just divine. Really one of the best cocktail dresses from this period I have had. The workmanship is very fine and it is surprisingly light weight it is made of a fine, fine metallic lace and lined in nothing but a nude colored silk so it feels like air once on. The lace that makes up the exterior is beautiful it is a fine chocolate colored lace, whose threads have been treated or coated with an iridescent metallic sheen that in the