Rare S/S 1963 Patchwork Rudi Gernreich Bathing Set w Fringe Belt designer-pierre-cardin There are actually crazy little

There are actually crazy little pop art birds worked into the design of this one - look closely on the front panel - you can see them looking like they are trotting up the hill A contrasting floral border finishes all the edges and the back is just a riot of color and design

The collar is big and exaggerated

From a distance this gives the illusion that the wearer is utterly bare from the waist up except for the covering of fine netted lace

Mint condition

The skirt has am amazing amount of fabric in it - it is pretty much a full circle skirt

Rare S/S 1963 Patchwork Rudi Gernreich Bathing Set w Fringe Belt designer-pierre-cardin There are actually crazy littleThe Spring Summer 1963 Gernreich collection featured a variety of items made from a patchwork knit. The Metropolitan Museum holds a Maillot in their permanent archives and a jacket was featured in the 2011 exhibition "UNRAVEL Knitwear in Fashion" at the MOMU Mode Museum in Antwerpen, Belgium. Here we have a third piece from that collection and it as as rare as the other two and probably deserves to be held in a museum as well. The set consists of a