Saturday, January 5, 2019

Bowed-Band Dress

Shelley in a spread from the 1960s
on the Fashionable Clothing from the Sears Catalog book, 1998

Shelley appeared in many Sears catalog spreads during her tenure as Supermodel. In the 1960s, she appeared in the catalog's Junior Bazaar spread that featured knee-length dresses (which was the more desirable length at the time) for fashionable young ladies to wear on evening events. She wore the Bowed-Band dress, a round-neck sleeveless evening shift dress adorned with a matching bow at the waist. Matching low-heeled evening pumps - a must for every proper young lady - completed her look. Earrings and a clutch finished her look. And with her hair fashionably worn up, Shelley looked every inch a proper young lady of the 1960s.

closeups of Shelley from the 1967 Sears spread