Christian Dior dress, possible vintage?

Hello! This is my first post on here and I just wanted to let you guys know how much I appreciate this site. I am quite new at selling on eBay (about 30 sales so far) and I recently bought this beautiful dress from a thrift shop. I fell in love with it and I was going to buy it even if it weren't labeled Christian Dior. I've been searching for the past 3 months a reference to this dress with no results. I finally decided to ask you guys if you could tell if this is truly vintage and if Dior ever made this kind of dress. There is no material label, only a size label that reads 8. Zipper on the back, lined, material is definitely wool or wool blend in excellent condition. All your help is greatly appreciate it. Thank you!

 

Argh, so sorry for the way the pictures attached! I posted them from my phone and I don't know why they came out turned. I have no idea how to fix it!!

 

Sorry, my name is Lavi. Thank you for th reply!
I did a google image search for this label and it does come up a few times, with what appear to be day dresses as well. But you are right, what I've seen is dated as early '80's.

 

The squared shoulder, princess line, polka-dots, and grey/black colour suggest early 90s to me but I don't know that label. I think it must be when Dior was reinventing itself after Bohan left, which was about 1990.

 

Hello Jonathan! Thank you so much for your reply! It's interesting to find that this is from the 90's. when I saw it, I immediately thought more of Mad Men era. I found a few with the exact same label in some Etsy shops.

By the way, I am becoming more and more interested in vintage clothing and I am reading up all on these forums to gain more knowledge. What good books on fashion history and vintage clothing would you all recommend?

 

Hi Lavi,
Re your book question, I would suggest checking out the Amazon Link at the tool bar top of the page. This will lead you to many wonderful books that have been selected especially for our members to consider purchasing. And by following the link it also helps raise funds for the Vintage Fashion Guild through our affiliates program with Amazon. :sunshine:

 

Oh my, that is so awesome! Thank you for the tip. Seriously though, this forum is addictive. I pretty much stayed on here for about 7 hours, going back on your archives and reading on old posts. I even forgot to eat dinner! I will definitely check those books now. I have a few more dresses I bought at my local thrift that I post on here. You guys are awesome!

 

Excellent, you will love the books !, its SO easy to get addicted to the forums and resources here but- gosh 7 hours! I hope you have had dinner now though
Have fun and I hope we see your other images in the future.

 

With the velvet dots and trim, I could see that being marketed as an cocktail dress in the 9os, so the label would make some sense.

 

I contacted Dior and sent them the pictures of the dress and they said they will look into it. If it's a genuine label, i'd like to add it to the Label Resource.

 

Lavi your label is missing off London which is not unique must it must mean something like it was not sold in London only New York and Paris

 

Lavi, such a neat dress. Thanks for sharing the photos with us.

I'm concerned about the stain between the buttons, and with the wool content, if you know what I'm saying. I'd get this dress into the freezer, or to your trusted dry cleaning establishment, right away, to minimize potential damage.

 

Thank you guys for all the replies! I greatly apreciate your help.
Joules, this dress doesn't have any buttons, but I'm assuming you are referring to the black velvet polka dots. I'm usually pretty picky with my photos but I was in such a hurry that night that I just wanted to put the pics up. I took these photos with my iPhone and uploaded them from there. It looks like a stain because of the close up and the lighting I had at the moment. The dress doesn't even look like it's been worn at all and the only "flaw" I can see is that tiny imperfection in the material in the close up.

 

That's what I get from viewing photos when I'm half asleep, on my phone!
Duh.

That's reassuring news. Nonetheless, I'd still make haste to the cleaners, with this nice dress.

 

Ay, I don't know if I'd trust any of the people around here. I live in a pretty unknown town, 60 miles west of Palm Springs, California (60 miles east of LA) and I don't know any *good* ones around. I'll have to start looking!!

 

In the meantime, I'd advise a double deep freeze, to be on the safe side.

 

How do you do that?!