"My dear, you're the most exciting woman in this room...in a Mollie Parnis dress of William Rose black taffeta. 125.00"
This dress had every opportunity of being austere with its long sleeves and solid black color. But note how Parnis offsets that by making the neckline as wide as it can be with the sleeves sitting just at the very edge of the shoulders. Those shoulders become the center of attention, don't they?
Dress by Mollie Parnis shown in a full page ad for Harper's Bazaar, December 1956.