Extraordinary 1970s Bill Blass Black Cashmere Front Pocket Evening Dress designer-bill-tice The top has inner built

The top has inner built in cups and the bottoms are unlined with a cotton gusset

Halston did do swimwear collections for his clients and this was a dress that was a part of that same line as it is made from a jersey that is much like a swimsuit fabric

Both pieces are fully lined in an ivory tissue silk

Cut simple through the bodice with a pretty ruffled accented V neck

Extraordinary 1970s Bill Blass Black Cashmere Front Pocket Evening Dress designer-bill-tice The top has inner builtI am very pleased to begin presenting a collection of Bill Blass pieces from a woman who was a close personal friend of Mr. Blass for many years. Many of these pieces were custom made or tweaked specifically for her and all of them are in exquisite condition, having been stored and cared for properly over the years. These are rare and hard to find example of his work from the late 1970s and into the 1980s. Some may be the only version of its kind that