Help dating wedding dress pretty please...

[thevintageloft]

Hiya,
Im looking for some opinions on the date of this wedding gown.
No label ( ive searched every little hem, seam, nook and cranny.)
Satin bow, acetate lining, short sweep train and satin pads sewn in at bust.
I'd love any feedback~
Thanks so much!

 

[Jonathan]

It's kind of odd with old fashioned features like the illusion chiffon yoke, multiple button closure and satin cummerbund sash, but then the cut is more modern and the swags of pearls with black beads are modern... I wonder if it was a 1980s wedding dress made from moms 1950s wedding dress...

 

[Midge]

I agree with Jonathan- I've looked at this the second time around now and I don't know what to make of it. Can you please show a photo the inside of the bodice and the bust pads? I'd like to see what these look like.

 

[Rue_de_la_Paix]

I looked earlier and thought 1980s, since it has a lot of 1980s details. The large back bow, the cummerbund, ....and the embroidered nylon (or poly) lace is a late 70s and 80s type of lace. That wide portrait style collar is also an 80s detail. The collar is unusual to me for a bridal dress. This has such a youthful, adolescent quality to it, that I wonder if it is more of a young miss graduation dress or sweet sixteen kind of dress that was also used later for a wedding dress.

 

[thevintageloft]

I agree with Jonathan- I've looked at this the second time around now and I don't know what to make of it. Can you please show a photo the inside of the bodice and the bust pads? I'd like to see what these look like.

Nylon brown pads...

 

[thevintageloft]

I really love all the input!! Thanks so much for helping me work thru this interesting garment~

 

[Midge]

Thanks! Brown seems to be a weird choice... But they look newer too to me, and in a 50s dress I think I would expect more elaborate inside construction. I am tending towards 80s as well.

 

[Rue_de_la_Paix]

The brown pads indicate that the dress may have been worn by a woman with a brown skin tone.

 

[Circa Vintage Clothing]

I agree with Barbara about the pads and date the dress as circa 1980, perhaps very late '70s but more likely '80-82 I think.