1967

Woman's Short Evening Dress

For his fall 1967 collection, Geoffrey Beene declared ball gowns passé, showing instead both sequined long dresses made like football jerseys—complete with numbers—and short evening dresses like this one that took hems to new heights. The designer’s insouciant attitude was noted by Harper’s Bazaar; the magazine featured the shimmering mini and commented that Beene, “fashion spark of American ingenuity, throws a hundred million sequins into a mirror miracle of shape; scatters neon flowers at random; then garlands the hem.”