1968 Bill Blass Museum Documented Brown Velvet & Silver Thread Coat designer-biba Skirt: 42" from top of

Skirt: 42" from top of waist band to hem

It does show wear inside and flaking as these bags tend to do as they aged

It ties at the back neck and zippers at the low back waist

A stunning piece that is a nice bright pop of color

Best of all the dated tag gives us the exact year it's from

1968 Bill Blass Museum Documented Brown Velvet & Silver Thread Coat designer-biba Skirt: 42" from top ofBill Blass became the head designer at Maurice Rentner in 1959 and soon after that his name started to appear on the labels. In 1970 he bought out the Maurice Rentner label and re launched it under his own name. These Bill Blass for Maurice Rentner pieces, are some of his earliest and you will find many of them, like the twin of this coat, in museum collections throughout the world. Blass was arguably one of the most famous of all the American