Info about this velvet skirt I bought at a charity shop?

[LucyVintage]

Hi, I bought this skirt the other day from a local charity shop specialising in vintage fashion, but the shop’s owner wasn’t really sure where the skirt came from and I’m curious.

It’s green velvet made from 100% cotton and, according to the label is from a German brand (Niedieck Brillant Samt). “Samt” means velvet in German, but that’s about all the info I could gather. It’s a size ten (UK size) and comes from some time more than 20 years ago, as the shop only sells fashion from before the year 2000.

Could anyone guess the approximate age of the skirt or tell me anything about the brand?

Images are attached, of the skirt as it was in the shop and of its label.

Thank you!

 

[MagsRags]

Pretty!

the shop’s owner wasn’t really sure where the skirt came from….. and comes from some time more than 20 years ago, as the shop only sells fashion from before the year 2000.

Those two statements are in possible conflict. You would need to know how and why the shop owner dated the skirt to pre-2000 despite being unsure of where it came from. Sometimes there are clues; e.g. design details, or care and content labels. Sometimes it’s instinct, which can be mistaken.

 

[MagsRags]

Your skirt has pretty classic lines, which makes it harder to date. I do see some Niedieck velvet pieces online at various venues - eBay, poshmark, etsy - a few with your label dated as 70s.

 

[LucyVintage]

Pretty!

Those two statements are in possible conflict. You would need to know how and why the shop owner dated the skirt to pre-2000 despite being unsure of where it came from. Sometimes there are clues; e.g. design details, or care and content labels. Sometimes it’s instinct, which can be mistaken.

I guess they must know where it came from, but to be fair the person working in the shop at the time probably wasn’t the owner as I assumed, as there was more than one employee there at the time, and they may not have had the same info that the person who looks over the clothes would have done. The pre-2000s claim just came from their website.

I googled the brand just after posting this and found another thread, also from this forum, where someone says the it went bankrupt by 2003 and was bought by another company. I can’t find a source for that, though?? Like you said, the other pieces online with similar labels seem to come from the 1970s, although I did just find a jacket on Etsy marked as 1990s.

The skirt style, linings and zip colouring/shape look a lot like the evening dresses my mum has from the early 1980s, but of course I don’t know enough about vintage fashion to really take a guess. And as you said, it is a very generic-looking skirt, which was part of the appeal haha but also means it’s harder to trace