Help identifying a dress

[Moonchild]

Hi, I have this dress that I think is from the 60's. It has a front long zipper that is covered, metal zipper, lining sown onto the other fabric with a ziczac handstich, and other general hints. (I could be wrong, I'm still learning)

BUT... The fabric has this repeating word that I can't identify. The dress has no labels what so ever. Please do tell what you think!

 

[bluevelvetvintage]

That's a really cute dress! There are some jersey dresses like this online by an Italian designer Salterio. And I'm thinking it's early 70s.

 

[lkranieri]

I think the signature might be that of Romeo Salterio, an Italian scarf manufacturer in the 1960's. He may have designed his scarf textiles and dress textiles.

 

[lkranieri]

Oops, cross-posted with Theresa . . . and I was thinking early 1970's, too.

And EDITED to add that Salterio apparently later converted his scarf textiles into blouses.

 

[Avantbo]

Great dress.

The zip is manufactured by LAMPO, Italian, they were originally a button maker, 1880s, started making zips, WW2, screwed things up for the company a bit but from the early 1950s were rolling out zips, I have a few of theirs in my zip odds and sods box.

They still exist I think, the zip in your photo is original to the dress so 70s I think is bang on for the dress era.

 

[Circa Vintage Clothing]

Another vote for early '70s; it's really cute! I love a nice printed jersey dress.

 

[Midge]

Me too - love the print on this one!

 

[Moonchild]

Thank you so much for your answers!
I love this dress so much that I've decided to keep it for myself.
My boyfriend has a vintage shirt with a similar print and he begged me to keep the dress so we could match!

 

[Midge]

Oh, that is so cool!

 

[lkranieri]

FYI, I was about to close an image of a 1960 article, which I inadvertently left open, when this sentence caught my eye...