Levin v. Halston Ltd.

The question to be determined is whether a purchaser of a custom-made designed dress to be worn at a wedding can sue the designer for mental anguish when the dress is allegedly improperly made and cannot be worn for the occasion. The purchaser is Mrs. Myron Levin of Highland Park, Illinois. The defendant is the high fashion designer Halston Enterprises, Inc., known to the cognoscenti simply as "Halston”.

In February, 1975, Mrs. Levin visited the showroom of the defendant in New York and looked at the summer collection. She selected the dress in question "as a possibility”. Her measurements…