Spring 1999 Oscar de la Renta Strapless Silk Taffeta Dress w Elaborate Back Skirt mao-hide The skirt closes with a

The skirt closes with a row of tightly spaced fabric covered buttons at the side and is lined in a pink silk that follows the shape of the pieces of the skirt bottom

Bodice: 21" from neck to dropped waist seam

Running down and over the skirt is a trail of leaves

It wraps around you and then at the back each end extends out so that you can tie it into a bow

Note that there are missing appliques and beads - mostly across the shoulders - you could steal from the body of the dress here and there and fill

Spring 1999 Oscar de la Renta Strapless Silk Taffeta Dress w Elaborate Back Skirt mao-hide The skirt closes with aFor the Spring 1999 collection Oscar did a series of separates and dresses that featured these dramatic trained silk taffeta skirts. There were several variations shown on the runway and I have included some of those here. Ashley Judd wore a red sleeved version of the dress to the VH1 Divas Live event. She then changed and wore the skirt and jacket version to the after party at the Beacon Theatre in New York. The Met Museum holds a piece from this