Bruck's pink uniform dress

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Victoria D

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Hi everyone. I am new to selling vintage clothing and need some help with this dress I found at the thrift store. It is made by Bruck's and I haven't been able to find one like it online. I am assuming it is a uniform of some type and is from the 50's? Any information is helpful! :)

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Hi Victoria and welcome!

I think it might be 70s given the fabric contents label and perhaps for a candy striper (hospital volunteer)? They usually wore red and white striped jumpers though but your dress looks like one of their uniforms to me.

I had a Bruck's nurse dress from 1917 so they made uniforms for many decades.
 
I agree with Rita - the style could be earlier but the label with the fabric content looks '60s or '70s. Dacron is an early name for polyester, the fact that it has both of these words suggests to me that it's probably '60s but uniforms can be hard to date because the styles are classic.

An interesting aspect is the removable buttons: that suggests to me that the dress is designed to be boiled, so worn somewhere where there is bacteria. Rita may have hit the nail on the head with her hospital suggestion.
 
Hi Nicole :hiya:

Your eyes never cease to amaze me - removable buttons, would have never noticed that and good point about the Dacron - you could be right about the 60s.
 
Thank you, ladies, so much for responding. I did read somewhere that Bruck's sold or went out of business in the '60's and the only Bruck's uniforms I could find online were nurses.

Victoria
 
The first RN# (registered identification number) was issued in 1959 (and the number was 13670, FYI). Thus, the dress can't be older than 1959. My special secret RN# formula of:

x (your garment's RN#) - 13670 = y/2635 = years to add to 1959 to get the oldest your garment can be

Thus, 17555-13670 = 3,885/2635 = 1.5 + 1959 = 1961 or so

It's not absolute or exact, but it's pretty accurate.

That does not mean, however that the dress is from 1961 or so, only that 1961-ish is the first time that label was used, so the garment cannot be any older.

If the company went out of business in the 60s, as Victoria suggests, then you can definitely say that the dress is 60s.

FYI, Dacron was invented by DuPont in the very early 1950s, and is still made today, so that's not much help here.
 
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