Help dating Pajama Top (?) from Vanity Fair (60s?)

[laurenm]

hi everyone,
I figure this is a top from a PJ set and the closest match for label is 60s....wondering if I'm off. No other labels.
Thanks for any help.
Lauren

 

[Pinkcoke]

It looks like a bed/breakfast jacket or a dressing gown that has been shortened to me. Too substantial for pyjamas I think. Can you show the inside of the bottom hem please?

 

[laurenm]

Hope this shows it

 

[Pinkcoke]

Bed jacket it is, that looks like the original lining seam.

 

[laurenm]

Thanks Melanie....do you think 40s or 60s?

 

[Pinkcoke]

I wouldn't have said earlier than 60s, those buttons are quite distinctive, as is the colour. The label looks more modern, and I did wonder if it was later but old fashioned, but I have a 60s quilted dressing gown with similarities so I would go with 60s. The label looks most similar to one in our resource also from a quilted bed jacket, from the late 1950s but the foldover looped label doesn't appear in the list until a late 1970s robe. So that would seem to fit between the two there as well.

http://vintagefashionguild.org/label-resource/vanity-fair/

 

[Circa Vintage Clothing]

I would call that a late '60s (perhaps early '70s with those colours) brunch coat - something that was put on over your pyjamas to have breakfast in. Longer than a bed jacket, which is generally more open at the front as they were worn in bed.

 

[Pinkcoke]

Interesting Nicole, I didn't know there was a differentiation!

 

[laurenm]

I went looking for bed jackets and brunch ones and found this...too cute and oh so dated although I have been known to phone, text, email and eat breakfast in bed....I DO NOT look this glamourous or efficient while so doing.....

 

[laurenm]

just found another pattern this one with something called a 'nightingale'....