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Can you help dating this dress?

Discussion in 'PUBLIC Vintage Fashion - Ask Questions Get Answers' started by Lulu Poppins, Oct 17, 2018.

  1. Lulu Poppins

    Lulu Poppins Registered Guest

    Hi, I have this dress and I am not sure about it's era.
    It has long zipper in the back, not metal, and any label. IT doesn't has inner lining neither...
    And it has very small pads.
    Probably 80s? But buttons are making me hesitate.
    Thanks,
     

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  2. Hi Lulu, I see both '70s and '80s styling here. Can you please show a photo of the shoulder pads? It will help. Thank you.
     
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  3. Lulu Poppins

    Lulu Poppins Registered Guest

    Hi Nicole,
    Sorry for the delay. I needed to check the dress and I had it in another place.
    I went to look and I saw I was confused: it doesn't has shoulder pads.
    I guess this bring us to the late 70s? Do you think so?
    Thanks for your help.
     
  4. Thanks Lulu. I’ll go with early to mid ‘70s then.
     
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  5. Jonathan

    Jonathan VFG Member

    Are you sure that's not a tiny black metal tooth zipper? The dress would pass for c. 1950 in film -- If its not c. 1950, I would sell it as a darn good repro.
     
  6. Midge

    Midge Super Moderator Staff Member

    It looks like a pretty modern zipper to me - but it's been sewn in by hand. Modern in replacement zipper in a vintage dress?
     
  7. Lulu Poppins

    Lulu Poppins Registered Guest

    Hi everyone!
    I think the zipper seems too flexible to be metal, but It's difficult for me to know becaiss I hardly ever find clothes that are older than the 70s.
    It's true that I see something different in this dress than what I am used to.
    I will look again the zipper. What a pitty that It doesn't have any label compositijc neither!
    It doesn't seem polyester. At least not only polyester.
    Thanks again!
     
  8. Rue_de_la_Paix

    Rue_de_la_Paix VFG Member

    The fabric looks similar to a satin backed crepe, although I cannot really tell from the photos. Are the buttons metal, glass, or plastic? The length seems too long for 1970s or even early 80s, to me.

    I am not much help, but wanted to comment for what it is worth.
     
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  9. Jonathan

    Jonathan VFG Member

    There were some long vintagey looking dresses like that in the 90s - and even that vintage colour combination of blue and pink... I could see it being middly 80s if the shoulder line was stronger, and those buttons don't look right... it's an odd one.
     
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  10. Looks like a 1980s dress. Could be home sewn with vintage buttons from a stash. If it's 50s, which it also could be, then probably just a replacement zipper, as people have suggested.
     
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  11. Lulu Poppins

    Lulu Poppins Registered Guest

    Ok, Thanks for your help everyone.
    I will explain the digferent possibilities in the listing. Anyway your help is really appreciated!
     
    Last edited: Oct 19, 2018
  12. Lulu Poppins

    Lulu Poppins Registered Guest

    Hi, don't worry, everything is appreciated. I've looked the buttons and they are not plastic, It seems ceramic. I didn't know until now, but yes, one of them is a bit shelled!
     
  13. Vintagescarf Library

    Vintagescarf Library Registered Guest

    Hi Lulu,
    Its a 1970's dress probably mid 70's,the fabric is rayon (viscose) almost like a moss crepe ,the great indicator to the dress's age is the long zip at the back,and that the design is a 1930's revival style.Very popular of that era,film's such as 'Bonnie and Clyde ' ,enhanced the fashions of that decade to favor the 30's style.
     
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  14. Lulu Poppins

    Lulu Poppins Registered Guest

    I didn't know that in 70s they did this Kind of dress. A good chance to see the film. Thanks
     
  15. Jonathan

    Jonathan VFG Member

    The skirt shape doesn't strike me as right for the 1970s - that tubular shape is more typically 80s/90s, or 40s/50s - If it was 70s I would expect an A-line, full, or if narrow, with deep slits probably up the sides.
     
  16. Rue_de_la_Paix

    Rue_de_la_Paix VFG Member

    I recall, and I wore, the 1930s revival dresses that were briefly popular in the early to mid 1970s. As Jonathan has mentioned, this does not look similar to those styles.

    Also, "Bonnie and Clyde" came out in 1967, almost a full decade before the mid 1970s.
     
  17. Marzilli_Vintage

    Marzilli_Vintage VFG Member

    I also see 1950-ish.
     

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