Donald Original, The New Botany Wool Dress

[Sandra Wulfert]

Hi. I’m new to the forum. I am the founder of a nonprofit that has an online store for charity. We were donated a beautiful vintage wool dress in fantastic condition and are hoping to get some information about it.
If anyone has information they can share, I’d sure appreciate it.
Thank you!

 

[lkranieri]

I found many 1950s references to Donald Original designs by Jack Herzog and in another VFG Forums post here I saw I wrote this:

A 1958 NY industrial directory listed: "Donald Dress, Inc, 530 7 Ave, NYC. Pres Jack Herzog, treas Samuel Herzog. Dresses..." (Note that the address for Donald Dress, Inc. was the same as the one for Jack Herzog, "drses" and that Jack and Ruth Herzog had a son named Donald)

 

[Sandra Wulfert]

Thank you. That information is extremely helpful and appreciated. I wish I had posted better images of this wool dress as it is quite lovely and in wonderful condition.

 

[Vintagiality]

There are a few old threads about this company here on the forum. Check this one out which even has some of the descendants of Jack Herzog responding

https://forums.vintagefashionguild.org/threads/jack-herzog.54145/#post-731257

 

[Sandra Wulfert]

Thank you for the information.