21.   Ms. Lonstein said that she wants to spend the post-Seinfeld era designing strapless dresses.

22.   Recently they were fitting a strapless dress that looked perfect, until Ms. Dezzapina suggested dropping it an inch below the armpit.

23.   She hit the Versace flagship on Via Montenapoleone, where she picked up some slinky jersey strapless dresses and a mink-trimmed coat and cardigan.

24.   So was a strapless black chiffon dress with sheer panels in the skirt.

25.   Some strapless fishtail dresses had scratched patterns on them, some simple bands tracing across them with a gentle geometry.

26.   So she comes out with a strapless dress based on a fisherman-knit sweater, except that it has a kind of dickey for a collar.

27.   Strapless dress or tube top.

28.   Strapless dresses with little A-line skirts also were important, and several were featured with matching jackets.

29.   The show ended with a model in a white strapless dress who was clutching an Oscar.

30.   There were also strapless dresses worn over other dresses.