Is my Carlye dress Early 50's or ??

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Is my Carlye dress Early 50\'s or ??

I have this dress.. It is a buttery brownish cream, with chemical lace and machined chain stitching, made of slubbed or raw silk, with peasant sleeves, and a side zipper with the round puff balls at the necks being actual buttons that work.. It is made by Carlye and is it early 50's?

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Off and on throughout the day I looked in the newspaper databases for ads for Carlye dresses. I found ads for very similar and very pretty Carlye dresses, but not that exact dress. The most similar dresses were primarily in the mid-1940s. I was trying to narrow the date for you, but there are something like 3,000 ads with the words "Carlye" and "dress" in them.

I did note that virtually every ad was for Carlye Junior dresses, so I gather they made only, or primarily, junior-size dresses.
Lynne
 
This dress is probably about a size 2. And even though it is a side zip, there are no shoulder pads and the way it is constructed there were never shoulder pads, the sleeves are puff but still three quarter and the skirt of it just doesn't seem right for mid forties.
 
So you think 70's? The hem is taped and the zipper is a metal Conmar zipper.. and the waist has tape as well. It isn't constructed like a 70's dress inside.
 
Never mind... I just turned it inside out and looked all over and there was a workers union tag that dates it to 55 - 63. yeah me!
 
Well, in my last bit of poking around I found a 1961 ad for a Carlye dress with a peasant style and what they call Tyrolean embroidery. It has little bows at the ends of the sleeves and embroidery around the skirt. It also has a boat-type neck with embroidery there, so it is not quite the same, but let me take a few last forays into the 60s and 70s.
 
I know it is between the ages of 1955 - 1963 because of the Workers Union tag I found inside while looking at the seams. So even though it may look 70's it is definately late 50's or early 60's.
 
And Ikranieri - what do you belong to or are you a member of to get the ads? I'd like to join if it is reasonable to do so..
 
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