Collins Mermaid Wedding Dress with Long Sleeve V neck & Open Back Selfa Bridal Mermaid Wedding Dresses New York City Bride Alluring Open Back Sleeved Lace Mermaid Wedding Gown Vikki Dougan was an actress struggling to make her mark on Hollywood. She asked an unknown designer to make her a backless dress. This photo is Los Angeles in 1957 when Vikki Vikki Dougan walking through the streets of Hollywood in a backless black dress, the outfit was considered to be 'daring' and 'scandalous' at the time. photographs by Ralph Crane & published