The Cocktail Dress
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Never out of fashion
REVIEW BY MICHELLE JONES Hepburn strikes a pose as that beloved character, wearing the iconic Givenchy, on the jacket of Laird Borrelli-Persson's The Cocktail Dress. The book starts with an informative essay summarizing trends and styles from the 1920s, when the cocktail dress first became a wardrobe staple, to the present, punctuated and followed by a parade of stunning dresses. Vintage images—16-year-old Twiggy in a pink sleeveless mini-dress worn with translucent white tights, silver shoes and gi-normous ball earrings; Louise Brooks all silky and shimmery in Jazz Age satin and fringe; Marilyn Monroe "poured into an inky cocktail number"—are paired with newer ones to prove the "bite-sized taste of seduction" has never gone out of style. A photo index at book's end includes more morsels about designers, models and styles.
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