The Skeleton Dress appeared in Schiaparelli's Le Cirque parade collection in 1938, breaking all conventional design standards at the time. The dress's trompe l'oeil skeleton effect remains one of the most iconic Lip Service Dresses Lip Service Skeleton Bone Stretch Dress Size M Whimsigoth Witchy Cold Shoulder Poshmark Black Mermaid Skeleton Long Maxi Dress Etsy Til Death Do Us Part A Southern Drawl Elsa Schiaparelli with Salvador Dal 'The Skeleton Dress' 1938 To many contemporaries the sinister black skeleton evening dress with its padded representations of human bones was an outrage Victorian Skeleton Red Dress