1940s Elmar Designs New York Ostrich Feather & Net Veil Hat w Bow designer-mary-mcfadden The waist nips in and

The waist nips in and there is a panel of the same fabric the bust is made out of under the waist seam that skims over the tops of the hips

A similar dress to this example appeared in the book 'Halston' and I also found a similar example from an earlier collection he was doing in cashmere from the 1972

This is a beautiful peach colored silk jersey version of the dress that you see just behind Halston's shoulder in the reference photo included in this listing

For the 1971 season Crahay did lots of exotic prints and worked fringe in to the collection

He actually bought out the Jane Derby company and that is where Oscar de la Renta as we know it today began

1940s Elmar Designs New York Ostrich Feather & Net Veil Hat w Bow designer-mary-mcfadden The waist nips in andThis late 1940s topper is very chic and dramatic. Elmar Designs was a small millinery shop that operated out of New York from the 1940s to the 1960s. One of their hats is held in the Indianapolis Museum of Art's permanent collection and they seem to have centered primarily around making hats with veils. This example of their work is quite charming. The top portion is a flat disc that has deep charcoal grey and black feathers placed around an center