Dress
Designer
Byron Lars
(born 1965)
Fall 1991
White cotton and multicolor silk
Gift of Byron Lars
Object number91.204.1
This tailored wrap dress by Byron Lars is a twist on a man’s classic Oxford shirt. Buyers at Bloomingdales were amused by its witty design and featured the dress in their fall 1991 ad campaign, photographed by Steven Misel. That same year, Women’s Wear Daily named Lars “Rookie of the Year.”
DescriptionStylized shirt dress in white oxford shirting fabric with beige and blue pinstripes; bodice styled as man's long sleeve shirt, with right panel extended and draped to left sideseam with multiple tucks at left waist, forming crossgrain front skirt; princess back; detachable man's tie with multicolor golf printExhibitions