Spring 1985 Yves Saint Laurent Cotton Dot Print Jumpsuit designer-bill-blass The waist nips in and

The waist nips in and the skirt is cut on the bias and there is actually quite a bit of fabric in that skirt - it moves wonderfully

The inside is lined in black grosgrain looking fabric and you can see some of the hand stitching of the beads

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The cut of the dress is very simple and represents the time perfectly - a high neck tops a skinny sleeved shift that flares out in a saucy way as it reaches the hem - done deliberately so all the focus is on the legs

Spring 1985 Yves Saint Laurent Cotton Dot Print Jumpsuit designer-bill-blass The waist nips in andThe Yves Saint Laurent Variation line was a short lived diffusion line in the eighties. Most of the pieces you see from it are not along the line of what I usually buy for the shop but there was just something so young and fun about this jumpsuit that I decided to make an exception. It is made of cotton and the combination of the multi color dots and the full "flight suit" cut were just too good to pass by. The fabric is crisp so the shape is held and