Cocktail Dress - Vintage Small Evening Dress - Laundry By Shelli Segal - Designer - Made In USA - Sexy Evening Size 2 - Teal Purple - Swirls

Laundry by Shelli Segal dress. 90's vintage designer dress.
Vintage dress by Shelli Segal, when the brand was more exclusive and sold in only high-end stores. 1995.
New, never worn vintage pristine condition dress.
A very small, high-end sexy dress. The design is elegant enough for any important evening event, yet very sexy and whimsical. A very thoughtfully designed dress.
Sexy silhouette with a halter, tie behind the neck, or tie in front for strapless look.design. Designed for a small frame.
Lined a gorgeous 100% silk turquoise fabric.
Clean. No issues. Fabulous.
Laundry by Shelli Segal tag states Size 2, and the measurements are:
36 inches long (top of tag to bottom),
15 inches across chest (armpit hem to armpit hem).

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Shelli Segal is the press-shy designer behind the contemporary sportswear and dress label "Laundry by Shelli Segal." One of the top-selling women's lines in scores of American department stores, Segal's Laundry is known for its cutting-edge design and appealing colors and prints. She is a design veteran of both New York's Seventh Avenue Garment District and its more exuberant Los Angeles cousin, and possesses a sharp eye for the kind of casual but sexy clothing that best exemplifies California chic.

Segal is the sister of actor and director Robby Benson, who uses their mother's maiden name as his professional one. Born in the mid-1950s in Dallas, Texas, the future brand name grew up in a show-business family: her father, Jerry Segal, was a comedy writer, while mother Ann Benson Segal continued to work as a nightclub singer even when she was a full-time parent. "I grew up in nightclubs," Segal recalled in an interview with Dan Jewel for People. "My childhood memories are of seeing my mother onstage in sexy costumes looking like Marilyn Monroe."

Segal's family eventually relocated to New York City, and settled on Manhattan's Upper West Side. She entered the entertainment business herself at the age of six, when she was cast in a summer-stock production of the musical The King and I. She told Jewel, however, that she "would get hysterical crying when the king would die every night," she said in the People article. "So I knew showbiz wasn't for me." She sewed from an early age, but ventured back into entertainment when she was accepted at the prestigious High School of Music and Art in New York City. She graduated in 1972, and went on to the State University of New York at Purchase. An accident with a circular saw in woodworking class finally compelled her to choose between career paths, however: she lost part of her left index finger, and had to quit school. She underwent plastic surgery on it, and the forced recuperative lull, she later admitted to Jewel, "gave me a sense of immediacy and urgency. I was always interested in fashion—so I went for it."

Enrolling at the Mayer School of Fashion Design in New York City, Segal did a nine-month course and found a job with a company called Ruth Manchester in 1974, which made a junior dress line out of the slinky new synthetic fabrics that were relatively recent arrivals in the fashion industry. Show business remained near, however, because Manchester was the mother of singer Melissa Manchester. Segal went on to jobs with two other New York City companies that made women's clothing, St. Michel and Andre Bini. In 1981, when her brother—now a full-fledged star—and parents moved once again, this time to Los Angeles, she followed.

Segal easily found design jobs in the burgeoning fashion industry in southern California. She worked for a sportswear line, and designed children's togs as well. Companies she was affiliated with during this era include Leon Max, La Blanca sportswear, TKO, and JM Studio, which let her do a signature line for its contemporary division. She later designed for two other companies, Leo, which made junior-contemporary gear, and Jolie Madame, a dress manufacturer. Since the clothes were made in the Los Angeles area, Segal no longer was forced to travel regularly to Asia, as she had with the New York jobs. In a WWD article from 1986 about up-and-coming American designers, she told Maureen Sajbel that "the most obvious advantage to making my line here in Los Angeles is that when there is a problem . I don't have to solve it with a telex and a prayer."



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