Florida Handprints & other panel-print shift dresses: what art have you seen?

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mercyonthesubway

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Throwing open the forum for contributions and memories here, as I am most definitely in a position of ignorance and would welcome some informed input.

What I've been concentrating on is a catalogue of a particular group of Persian painting inspired panel prints - I've found five main types - they're here:

http://vintagevoyager.blogspot.com/2010/07/pages-from-persian-manuscript-1960s.html

This kind of thing:


But what I'm hoping to go on to do is to contextualize them a little more. What other types of painting served as inspiration for prints? Were these always made up by the manufacturers, as my examples seem to have been, or could you buy them in kit form like the Shaheen panel prints, like this set from 1969? http://www.etsy.com/listing/51005588/alfred-shaheen-fabric-with-shift-dress

And here (yes they're shop links, but I'm wading through everything for info) are my attempts to find pattern comparisons:
from 1966:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/48166265/vintage-1966-mccalls-misses-dress

and from 1964:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/43744685/panel-sleeveless-shift-dress-mini-or

If anyone can recommend some specific reference sources I should look up for more context (when I have a moment to hit the library!), I'd be ever so grateful. I would love to hear from anyone who remembers *buying* or making these up. What other kinds of 'screenprinted' labels have you found? Have any of them been in kits with labels and patterns, like the Shaheen example?

Look forward to hearing more!
Thanks everyone, so much.
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bumping for (1) comparison with the Delill purses and (2) still wondering whether anybody has any context on the kits and the timespan of the style.

Thanks all!
 
I can't help you much, but I can say that in all my years of handling vintage clothing is that I have noticed these directional or one scene prints tend to move from skirts in the 1950s to shift dresses, between about 1963 and 1970 and then back to maxi skirts in the 70s (as well as blouses). If you think about it, I suppose its related to the garment as canvas. Skirts and shift dresses are the perfect medium for that type of large, directional, or non repeat print.
 
Thanks Jonathan, that's a really clear, interesting way of framing it; I hadn't got such a good overview as that.

What I'm also trying to work out is whether there's a change in the prints used for the 'one scene' from the kind-of-fantastical 'Eastern' to more photographic reproductions of actual paintings, which first seem to appear on these shifts. This trend continues back into smaller prints in the 70s, that get more and more like accurate reproductions of the art (but on jersey textiles more often than cottons).

I'm trying to place the Goldworm trend to use very close reproductions of art on shifts (and later, maxis) in relation to this too. If only I had some spare days (weeks?) to leaf through the relevant mags in the art library.
 
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