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You are welcome. I did a quick search and couldn’t find info regarding Maria’s involvement with the company but I am sure Hollis will be around soon. All I found about the founding partners was this (which came from a lease): “The Indenture of Lease dated Feb. 1, 1887, between Warren B. Potter...

Hollis is still a member of the VFG. I am tagging her for you @pastperfect2

It does look 40s to me but let’s see what others think. Fashion Forecast Inc was the name of her original company which she started in 1944 with her husband. It was subsequently renamed to Dorothy O’Hara Inc so I suspect later labels dropped the Fashion Forecast but but I haven’t found the exact...

Here is the trademark info https://www.legalhoop.com/trademark/detail/74246661/FRANCESS%20&%20RITA

Or maybe Zane?

Are there any other labels or tags inside the jacket? Care labels? Content?

Here is an article about him from 1963. I think the dress is late 50s/ maybe early 60s

I am not saying you should but I personally would soak it in Restoration. At least from the photos it looks like quite a bit of yellowing so I don’t think it’s very wearable as is. Could be just what I see in the photos though. You are definitely risking the lining shrinking at a different rate...

What does the zipper and interior construction look like?

I wear my vintage all the time and I love it

I use Restoration all the time too on almost everything

Nicole, maybe Australian moths enjoy a different menu than our Canadian friends :) Sorry couldn’t resist :)

Definitely looks like Pelon. I have had mixed results with it. A few times it worked just fine and on one dress, it fell apart. I have no idea what the difference was but I just ended up removing the lining

Vintage black & white eyelet maxi dress| rose embroidered waistband with ruffle| long sleeve XS| late 60s early 70s Vintage 60s black party dress| velvet & gingham acetate cocktail dress| Lanz Bonwitt Teller| XXS/ juniors girl dress| red rosette

I am so in love with this dress, I keep coming back to look at it. I think I need to get it for myself :) P.S. which I totally just did. So excited!

And here is an example of London Fog using it even in the 80s

I have had many 70s items labelled to be made of Dacron and it’s quite common in vintage clothing so it definitely didn’t stop being produced after 1958

Vintage 60s day dress in seafoam blue, yellow, and orange abstract floral geometric print by Gaymode Pennys| loungewear house dress Vintage 60s winter white and brown mod dress| two tone dress Vintage 80s beige chiffon dress by Jerri Gee| café au lait dress| 80s does 40s| Vintage 80s...

Looks like Russian squirrel to me though I am not a fur expert so let’s see what others think

Articles did refer to the “East side” salon so I assumed NYC but I guess it’s possible

Thank you so much for looking Lynne! Same! Even finding her real name took me forever because she was referred to as Fontayne everywhere, and interestingly as “fon Tayne” separately in some of the earlier articles of her career I thought she may have continued to design past 1989 because she...

It would be helpful if you posted photos

Oh I found her obit! She died on 11/13/2006. Still can’t tell when she stopped designing though

@lkranieri I could not find for the life of me the exact year she stopped designing or anything really past 1986. Any chance you could look?

@Pam Kossek Fontayne was an American fashion model turned designer. Her real name was Audrey Harriet Fountaine Goldsmith. She was born February 21, 1927. Often when modeling, she would show up in one of her own creations and other models would swoon over her dress so she went into business...

Yes it looks like Rose Gimbel was Robert’s wife. Here is their divorce info

That’s an interesting connection. I had found a reference to a woman named Rose Gimbel Stecker so I was thinking that members of one and the other retailing families married

Right but I don’t know when she stopped working there relative to when she died. What I also found is that Stecker’s son Robert bought his father out of the Camden store in 1928 so I suspect the two stores had different history after that

What is strange is that I also found this from 1930

Oh I found it! It did sell to JC Penny but I don’t know the date because it’s from some woman’s obit