1950s Hattie Carnegie Silk Floral Print Watercolor Nipped Waist Dress Rodarte This circa 1970 Yves Saint

This circa 1970 Yves Saint Laurent belt is made from clear lucite squares and circles connected by silver tone links

Both were known for youthful femininity

This creates a wistful

It fastens at the solid green waistband with a single button closure

leg-o’-mutton sleeves

1950s Hattie Carnegie Silk Floral Print Watercolor Nipped Waist Dress Rodarte This circa 1970 Yves SaintFrom the early 1950s comes this heavenly silk dress by Hattie Carnegie. Its nipped waist silhouette is the perfect canvas for the gorgeous watercolor print that unfolds upon it: a blanket of pretty peonies in shades of pink, gray, white, lavender and, of course, Carnegie blue. My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them, the American designer once said. I like them to be simplecomplicated and simpleto move well, to move with the times