Help with 1960s Floral Dress Description!

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This 60s dress has a really sweet skirt detail but is there a term for that type of design or if not help with the description wld be good, I don't think 'flaps' quite does it lol!

Oh and does anyone know about this Beau Mel label (nothing found on search)? Also, does the fabric look like good ol' polyester?

Thanks everyone :kiss2:

Sarah

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It's cute! I'd probably call the skirt sarong inspired, with some details about how it's put together.

Re: fabric type, what did you get with the fiber burn test?
 
Sarong style, yeah, that's good.

Burn test, there's nothing that I can burn with, bound seams, tight overlocking, machine sewn areas are tight with rolled/folded over edges. Quite well made, actually very well made, so sadly nothing for me to burn unless I ignite the whole dress
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Sarah
 
Sarah, can't help with the label, but this might be silk. The old polyesters from the 60s generally didn't feel like real silk; some of the newer ones, though, are so nearly like it that you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference without a burn test. I doubt it is rayon, at least from its appearance in the photos, so silk or poly are likely the options.

If you have a known silk dress with the same sort of weave and finish as this, you can sometimes make a very accurate guess by touch.
 
Hi Anne, I was weighing up silk or poly but the silk I know (ie one dress I have lol) is very light airy and smooth, oh and raw silk I know, but this is quite heavy and a noticeable cross weave but it is cool to the touch. Hmmm, I'll go and look at my small collection and try and compare. This is very well made and thoughtfully designed and how the skirt piece is constructed behind the exterior is interesting. Wonder if it is a French piece or the 'Beau Mel' is just pretentious.

Sarah
 
It could be peau de soie, a heavy silk satin that is de-lustered. It has some luster to it, but not the typical high sheen of the lightweight silk you normally think of when you think of silk. And the diagonal weave (I think that's what you mean by cross weave?) would be a characteristic of that fabric. It appears to be very nicely made, which is one reason I'd suspected silk.

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Right, I've looked up silk and all it's variants and for one min thought faille but no..yes it does sound like Peau de Soie, my fabric does match this description: "Peau de Soie is a stout, soft silk with fine cross ribs. Looks slightly corded" yep totally my material and it's got that slight 'slimey cool' silk feel though rougher cos of the Peau de Soie grain/weave.

Thanks so much, that fabric also makes sense with the well constructed dress.

Cheers Anne :drinkingtoast:

Oh and does anyone think this is Parisian re the Beau Mel label with it's Eiffel Tower logo? It could well make sense now that it could well be.
 
I don't think it has to be French, just because of the Eiffel Tower on the label. I think symbols like that and French-sounding names were often used to make people believe that a piece of clothing had something to do with Paris - or just because it looked good...
My definitely canadian raincoat has the leaning tower of Pisa on it's label, and I can't imagine for the life of me, why :lol:.

Karin
 
Thanks Amber for the help with description...sarong inspired seems to be the popular choice...glad you like the dress, I'm really fond of it.

Karin, oh ok, probably not Parisian then, I didn't really think so 'Beau Mel' sounded fabricated, but I liked thinking for just a moment that it was French chic...lol! Annoying when nothing can be found on the label. Sweet tho it is.

Sarah
 
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