Hi all Picked this up today and I'm once again needing help dating it! You guys are wonderful The label says Moygashel color-fast, crease resistant Irish linen. There was supposed to be a belt but it must have been lost. Thanks!
So chic - love the color and the shape! I would date it to the early to mid-50s as well. I had this ca. late 40s/early 50s linen dress and bolero jacket with a Moygashel linen label:
Tamzzyn - I like your dress and am swooning over Karin's. Do you wear that dress Karin? It would look SO GOOD on you.
Thanks, Amanda. Yes, it was fab and I did wear it, but not enough, so I sold it on. It just wasn't quite the thing I'd wear to work - the top has just straps and the skirt was fairly long, so not very practical. I prefer 60s style shift dresses or then later 50s/early 60s shirtwaist dresses that are shorter for every day wear these days. I have sold quite a bit of stuff over the last couple of years that, while pretty, wasn't practical and I wasn't really wearing it. I've learned a lot about vintage from wearing vintage .
Both are fabulous dresses. And that grass green color is yummy. I have seen ads for Moygashel linen fabrics in some of my vintage "American Fabrics" magazines which date to the late 1940s and very early 1950s.
