Hi all, I have been researching a dress by Victor Costa from the Romantica collection which I thought to be late 80s from the design. Subsequently, I found online here http://www.fashionencyclopedia.com/Ch-Da/Costa-Victor.html#ixzz4S47Wch6l that the Romantica line was for J.C. Penney, 1994-95; designer, A.S. Design Group However, in the label resource here http://vintagefashionguild.org/label-resource/costa-victor/ the second label is also Romantica by Victor Costa and it says it's from the 70s. Does anyone know definitively when Romantica came out? Here is the actual dress. Thank you, Victoria
Your dress appears to be a classic 1970s dress. I do believe he brought back the Romantica line for JC Penney sometime in the 1990s but I don't know what the label looked like.
Your lovely dress is somewhat similar to the Romantica dress in the second image HERE, and which they date to 1974.
Thank you all! You are awesome. I was convinced that it was older than 1994 but couldn't find anything supporting the existence of Romantica before that. Victoria
I think all the Victor Costa Romantica pieces I have come across have been early-mid 70s. Your dress looks to be from then too - 1973-74ish
