60s or 70s for this Cocktail Party Gold Dress?

[susanandco]

Just thought I would double check with the experts on this dress before I list it. I am leaning towards 70s, but then again it could be ealier 60s before skirts went so short. It has no labels and was apparently custom made.

 

[Circa Vintage Clothing]

Looks very '60s to me. Is that the original hem length or has it been shortened?

 

[Linn]

It looks '60's to me, too. Late '60's around 1967-1968.

Linn

 

[MyVintageCocktail]

Add me to the "very 60s" crew, too! My SIL used to make most of her own clothing in the 60s & 70s, and I swear she had a dress made out of this same fabric! I'm thinking around '67 as well.

 

[Jonathan]

A lot of women wore their miniskirts just above the knee, and not just older women - gold lame with the jewelled trim is typical of late 60s and evening gowns with long sleeves are noted in 1969 as especially popular.

 

[susanandco]

Thanks for the help!! After I thought about it, I had a graduation dress that had the same princess lines this dress has and that was in 1968.
I don't think it has been shortened. I had my mother check it out also, she is a dressmaker, and it looks like the original hem, only about a 2" turn up. The skirts got shorter and shorter as the seventies approached, but they started out just a few inches above the knee, I do remember that now. We had to have them measured at school at first, and then later it was no holds barred as the dress codes were lifted by the time I graduated HS.
thanks again, as I got to second guessing myself!!