Dated 1975 La Mendola Turquoise & Blues Belted Silk Shirt Dress designer-teal-traina The jacket is pieced together

The jacket is pieced together in vertical stripes set extremely close together and matched perfectly for pile and color and so well done that you cant even see the edges at first glance

and then the inner layer falls out from that

Fully lined with a black silk

It closes with a back hand-set zipper and the ribbons overlap at the back and close with hook & eye

The jacket closes down the front with buttons and the dress closes with a side zipper that runs along a seam

Dated 1975 La Mendola Turquoise & Blues Belted Silk Shirt Dress designer-teal-traina The jacket is pieced togetherWhen the duo behind the La Mendola label were designing in Rome, it was women like Elizabeth Taylor and Rita Hayworth that were snapping up their pieces. By 1975, the year this dress is from, they had expanded into the American market, selling mainly made to order through shops like Bergdorf Goodman's like this one is from. On an interior seam we see the date this one was ordered, the style number and the client name. A fascinating glimpse into its