Help with dating corduroy coat

[laurenm]

Hi Everyone,
I've had this listed as a 1960s car coat....with all my recent knowledge gained from the Guild, I think this is more likely a 1980s number.
Any thoughts?
Would you call this a 'car coat' as I have been?

Thanks for any help,
Lauren

 

[Jonathan]

That little white tyvek tag hanging down suggests to me a later date. I agree it looks like a 60s cape/coat at first glance, but I don't think those white tags were used until the 80s? I may be wrong but I can't think of one before then in any garments I can remember.

 

[laurenm]

Thanks Jonathan. I hadn't realized those labels were tyvek...that helps alot. Now I'm wondering....I have a 'ronda roy, montreal" praire type maxi dress I've had listed as 1960s 1970s....I'm pretty sure the tag content/union label is tyvek (it doesn't tear, just stretches a bit). By the ILGWU label, this dress could date as late as 1984, but it seems more 70s at latest to me.

 

[laurenm]

oops, here's the union label

 

[Jonathan]

Somebody here - I can't remember who, figured out Canadian ILGWU tags were in use from 1968 - 1984. I apologize I can't credit who it was because I don't remember... I might be wrong about tyvek. It was made commercially available in the mid 1960s, so it was around, but I don't recall when I first start noticing it in garments and I haven't read anything about when it first started being used. I think of it more as replacing those paper 'DO NOT REMOVE' tags on pillows and couch cushions sometime in the 70s first. Anyway, the only thing I can add is that your peach dress looks scarily like the sort of things girls in my high school wore on dates in the late 1970s (I went to a religious private school - so sweet was 'in') I would bet 1978ish.

 

[laurenm]

HaHa....like a Holly Hobby come to life to haunt you? I read somewhere that this Ronda Roy company was a Gunnie Sax knock off. The 70s prairie/back to the earth gone synthetic.
This dress actually looks great on.
When 'working' with more 'lower end' vintage stuff, I sometimes find I'm at a loss to date due to lack of label info etc and I have generally given a latest 1980s guess to clothes bearing those (for lack of a better descriptor) 'crispy' paperish, easily pilled, rippable labels with washing instructions etc...

 

[Circa Vintage Clothing]

I agree with Jonathan's dating - I would put as around '77-78.

 

[laurenm]

Thanks Nicole.
I found this in the ebay guides:
Canadian Labels

The label on the left dates from 1968-1984 according to its CIPO Canadian Trademark registration information. This label was created after a dispute between the Canadian and US ILGWU chapters regarding a Buy American policy. The earlier label on the right resembles the US 1955-63 label, and dates from 1956-possibly 1968. Note that 'Canada Etiquette' is printed above the circle, and CLC is printed in the center after AFL CIO. CLC (Canadian Labour Congress) was formed in 1956. There could have been an intervening label from 1963-1968, but we don't have an example of it.
Thanks to empressjadeof the universe for the pictures and information about the CIPO registration.

 

[Midge]

I go by the same ebay guide for union labels - haven't found another one yet for Canadian labels either. I have a raincoat and a summer dress here that I bought in Montreal a few years ago, both were NOS and from the same shop. I would date both in the 70s, and they have the same union label that's supposed to be 68-84. Their tags are not tyvek though. I would have associated that material with a later dating from what I consciously know, but that peach dress of yours definitely looks like something like late 70s.

Karin