Care Labels

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awaywiffairies

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Hello everyone!

I hope you can straighten some confusion I've always had with care labels. Now I know (from VFG resource) that care labels were introduced in the 1971 USA and the modern labels 1983.

I have 1 dress (back metal zipper) and 1 blouse (buttons up the back) that I would definitely date as 1960s and I've shown a pic of the care labels etc. I have others that I would date 60s that have the same style of care label i.e table format with recommended machine setting and Hand/Machine info.

My question is, were these care labels introduced earlier in UK/Europe ie. the 1960s before USA in 1971? Or are these labels not the same care labels intro'd in 71?

Please help a confused Sarah :wacko:



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I'm in Australia but we get a lot of garments here both from the UK and the US (especially the former, as many migrants brought them out with them).

My experience is that prior to the '70s, garments came with cardboard swingtags that might have the care instructions, or at least they do from the late '50s. Earlier than that they aren't always there (I think housewives were very adept at fabric handling and knew what to do).

I would date your blouse as late '70s or '90s - the style was popular in the earlier time but then but the label looks more modern to me. What material is it?

The dress is early '70s, it has that late '30s-early '40s styling that was in popular revival then.

Nicole
 
some styles of the 60s sort of carried over into the 70s or at least morphed. Miniskirts were still around etc. It wasn't like one day it was the 60s and the next day everyone was in Gunne Sax. Also, for lines that were purchased by regular folks at department stores, the styles didn't change so suddenly.
 
Thanks for the info Nicole and PatentLeather.

I dated the pink dress as late 60s as it has a metal zipper?

The blouse is A Sybille Claymar original & buttons up at the back.

Nicole: I think it's all polyester.

Lace blouse label:

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The Dolly Day still has it's tags, here it is:
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I have another Sybille Claymar that doesn't have any care labels which I've dated as 60s & again it buttons up the back

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So, would u agree that the cream lace blouse is early 70s? Dolly Day dress has the care label but a metal zip so that's confusing, would an early 70s dress have a metal zip? and pink blouse 60s?? :scratchchin:

Sarah :icon_dante:
 
I agree that the last blouse is '60s.

Don't be mislead by the metal zipper: they are commonly found in '70s dresses and still available so any garment can have a metal zipper. It's just one piece in the puzzle and isn't definitive by itself.

Nicole
 
Thanks Nicole! That's good info re the metal zipper as I knew you'd might find metal zippers in homemade dresses later than 60s, but didn't realise that applied to boutiques as well, so that's helped me a great deal! So Dolly pink dress 70s & pink blouse 60s & cream lacey one 70s (they blouses are same maker & haven't found anything later than 70s for Sybille Claymar).

...and note to myself...put my name down for Nicole's book..

Sarah
 
Val, that's the dress you've chatted to me before about...you put it on your facebook a while back? It's still on my Etsy listing :headbang:

Sarah
 
Care labelling in Europe may have appeared in the late 1950's but it was not until 1963 that an organisation was formed that began to develop international or certainly European care symbols.

Here's the info link;

http://www.ginetex.net/ginetex/history/

In 1974 in the UK care symbols were made compulsory. (From a history of Marks & Spencer)
 
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