Dating a Dress

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Santi

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I have a dress that appears to be 60's vintage to my eye!
The label says:
Amalfi Imports
100% WOOL
Hand loomed In Italy

It is a knit dress, shift style with long sleeves, ribbed neck, cuffs & hem. The neckline is similar to a funnel neck, only wider. It is knee length. The color is avacado!
I haven't taken a photo of it yet.
Has anyone heard of this brand & knows anything about it?
Thankx ~*~ Santi
 
As I mentioned, I haven't shot a photo as of yet ~*~ SOON!

I was hoping someone would recognize the name and know if it's vintage ~*~ or not. Santi

Originally posted by Patentleathershoes
Welcome!

Do you have a photo you can show us?

Chris
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Even if they do, usually a maker produced for a number of years. Even if it was less than a dozen years , it is still a long enough span to be in different decades or totally different fashion movements. And makers could have very similar names too that can be confused.

Avacado could also be early to mid 70s too. There was a lot of crossover in the late 60s/early 70s as far as what the average person was wearing.

I am looking forward to seeing it :)

Chris
 
Amalfi is a made up brand name by Marx and Newman who started importing shoes from the Amalfi coast area of Italy in 1946. Its a brand you popularly see in the late 1950s - early 1980s in shoes. I don't know if they ever went into importing clothing, however, Italian knitwear was imported a lot in the 1960s - early 1980s and they may have expanded into that... There was some recent court battle about copyright of the name 'Amalfi' beause Max and Newman have been using it for so long, however, its not really a copyrightable name because it is the name of a region in Italy. A bit like opening a company and calling it 'New England' and then saying you copyrighted the name...

Anyway, its definately not pre 1946 and its probably not pre late 1950s when Italian knitwear begins to become an important export and judging from how you are describing the dress, it sounds mid 1970s when large cowl and turtle neck sweaters were popular and that hemlength was in fashion, also the colour.
 
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