Help with a foreign green dress!

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I picked up this little number the other day at the thrift store. The fabric feels natural and It is a deep yellow green with a darker shade splotched around it kinda reminds me of something you'd find at a hippie store maybe, or some kind of a natural dye process. The tag looks german to me and above it on top it says boutique in large letters (Its folded over in the picture) and then a secondary tag says "Creation catherine bale". Maybe it was a hand made garment by catherine and she had her own tags made? I know my grams used to do that in the 50s and 60s. the waist looks empire and it flairs out slightly from the bust line. The zipper in nylon and a lot of the stitch work is in a zig zag. Any help on dating this dress or info on this label or any info at all for me to soak up! I would be forever grateful:)
 

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The fabric to me looks like some tye die effect, but let's see what others have to say. Also not sure about dating. It could be vintage, or it could be newer - it definitely has that kind of "hippie vibe" and I know some shops around here that would sell something like this still.
The way it is made looks homemade though - especially those zig zag stitches... it has a boutique label though. Might be someone working from home selling her stuff in a small boutique.
What I can tell you is that I am almost certain that it is from Switzerland, more correctly from Basel. Bâle is the French name for Basel, and I think what you say it says on the second label (can you show a picture of that too please?) that's what it refers to, the city, and not a family name. According to the label, the boutique's name is "Zur Arve AG" - arve is the name of a certain type of pine tree that grows in the Alps - all over alpine regions in Europe, but it is in Switzerland only that we call it by that name. In Germany and Austria they use a different kind of name for the same tree. AG just means public company - sounds rather grand for a boutique, but who knows. In der Steinen seems to refer to the old town part of Basel called Steinenvorstadt - that's what Google tells me when I search for that. It seems this is a terms the locals use. I am Swiss, but not from Basel, and not too familiar with their specialties, but they do have a very distinctive dialect and some peculiar words. Komödie is probably meant in the sense of a theatre - maybe the shop was next to one or something like that. There is one very famous theater that does comedy in that part of Basel, but I would have thought if that was meant, they would have used the actual name of the theatre - because everybody knows it.
All that being said - I did various searches for the boutique, for the name Creations Catherine etc. - it all turned up nothing. Couldn't find anything in the current phone directory either, so all of that would point to this being something older...
 
The fabric to me looks like some tye die effect, but let's see what others have to say. Also not sure about dating. It could be vintage, or it could be newer - it definitely has that kind of "hippie vibe" and I know some shops around here that would sell something like this still.
The way it is made looks homemade though - especially those zig zag stitches... it has a boutique label though. Might be someone working from home selling her stuff in a small boutique.
What I can tell you is that I am almost certain that it is from Switzerland, more correctly from Basel. Bâle is the French name for Basel, and I think what you say it says on the second label (can you show a picture of that too please?) that's what it refers to, the city, and not a family name. According to the label, the boutique's name is "Zur Arve AG" - arve is the name of a certain type of pine tree that grows in the Alps - all over alpine regions in Europe, but it is in Switzerland only that we call it by that name. In Germany and Austria they use a different kind of name for the same tree. AG just means public company - sounds rather grand for a boutique, but who knows. In der Steinen seems to refer to the old town part of Basel called Steinenvorstadt - that's what Google tells me when I search for that. It seems this is a terms the locals use. I am Swiss, but not from Basel, and not too familiar with their specialties, but they do have a very distinctive dialect and some peculiar words. Komödie is probably meant in the sense of a theatre - maybe the shop was next to one or something like that. There is one very famous theater that does comedy in that part of Basel, but I would have thought if that was meant, they would have used the actual name of the theatre - because everybody knows it.
All that being said - I did various searches for the boutique, for the name Creations Catherine etc. - it all turned up nothing. Couldn't find anything in the current phone directory either, so all of that would point to this being something older...

Wow! Thank you so much for taking your time to research all of that for me! That's amazing when I looked at the tag I didn't even know where to start....

It's a pretty puzzling dress but that's the fun of it! It does look tie dyed and my instinct maybe say 1970s but I might need a little more expert advice:) thanks again!
 
The construction makes it hard to date, as it does look very home made. But the cut and style could be '60s. How long is it? Do you have a full length photo?

Here is the full length it hits her a lil above the knee and she is around 5 10" also didn't notice this before... here's a pic of the bottom hem it looks like there's a strip of fabric added around the bottom ? I could be wrong my seamstress knowledge is limited but it looks like it was to make it longer and then it looked like it was tie dyed after that strip was added because the pattern continues and doesn't cut off. Maybe this can help some more!
 

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I like that dress. The technique appears to be Batik (versus a more simple tie dye), but they are similar in that they are both a form of resist dying. The hem could have been taken up and the hem tape added at that time? The Empire bust line looks more 1960s to me, but I really have no good idea on the date of it.
 
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