Christian Lacroix Spring 1988 Red Polkadot with Detachable Sleeves designer-janice-wainwright The dress skims over your

The dress skims over your bust

There is a space in the waist for a tie to loop through and around but the tie is long gone - you could easily loop one back through if you wished

You could also have it float over the entire upper chest to drape over the other shoulder

The high quality of that work is readily apparent on this dress

The collar snaps into place almost all the way around the neckline

Christian Lacroix Spring 1988 Red Polkadot with Detachable Sleeves designer-janice-wainwright The dress skims over yourThe Shrimpton Couture Archives Reference Photos: (1 3) Spring 1988 Christian Lacroix. (4) Janet Jones in Christian Lacroix for Flare Magazine, June 1988.