Halston Three-Piece Evening Ensemble, c.1975

In the early 1950s, while attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Roy Halston Frowick (American, 1932-1990) began a business designing and making women's hats. He gained a well-known clientele designing for the Chicago elite. He later became the head milliner for high-end New York City department store Bergdorf Goodman. His fame rose when he designed the pill-box hat that Jacqueline Kennedy wore to the inauguration of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, in 1961. In the late 1960s, Halston made the transition to women's clothing, opening a boutique on Madison Avenue in New York, and started a ready-to-wear line eventually rising to international fame in the 1970s with countless licensing agreements.

Purple crop top sewn with a top-stitched elastic thread in a meandering pattern, worn with a long purple chiffon flowy skirt with an elastic waist band and a chiffon scarf.

Label: Halston

Size Label: 4

Approximate Measurements:
TOP

Chest: 24.75"

Waist: 28.5"

Length (high shoulder point to hem): 13.75"

SKIRT
Waist: 22.5"
Hips: 31.75"
Length (side waist band to hem): 40.5"

SCARF
Length: 121"
Width: 30.5"

Property from the Estate of Bud and Donna O. Wilkinson