Is there something better than "Hot Pink"?

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Is there something better than \"Hot Pink\"?

It's not a hot pink hanky hem dress like the one that skyrocketed for Sue, but it is hot pink :)

Are there any other magic words that would jazz this up even more besides "applique flowers with mirrored centers" and just saying "HOT PINK?". I am so out of the loop right now when it comes to the hot mahic words of the moment.

I really need to take a picture to show the bust darts better. And it is slightly off the shoulder at the top...but maybe i shoulda clipped the dress on her.

Oh well....

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Hmmm...well...in real life to me it is more hot pink. The flash situation turns it a little. I just can't get it exactly right on. But maybe the color identifier in my brain is off and it is really not as hot and i should just go with pink.
 
I just looked through all the "vintage hot pink dress" listings and really couldn't find any good keywords. I am terrible at this.

60s HOT PINK Daisy DEEP VEE BACK Summer Dress

See I told ya.

I love that neckline and the back.
 
My family always call that colour "shocking pink", it's a truly fabulous striking colour. I can remember some brands of cotton that used the term shocking pink and also a couple of brands of stockings (mum used to sew for a career and my Uncle delivered for a hosiery business)

Love the dress too, it reminds me of a Jean Varon (by John Bates) from one of my 1960s issues of Queen magazine... shall go look it up. I think it came with a matching headscarf and stockings!

love, moons and starrs,
Senti*
 
Found it! 29th July 1964. Black silk jersey dress with "ego-centric edelweiss splashed all over the skirt... more mad flowers cling to the white crepe stockings and dot the white silk jersey headscarf".

Would it be any help to you if I scanned the picture? It's a rather dark black&white one but I'll see what I can do with it if it'll help.

love, moons and starrs,
Senti.*
 
I would love to see that picture!

Yes, it is 60s as you know and came from someone who actually never wore it - well only once! i can't imagine why they wouldn't have wanted to wear it. It's linen which i at first thought linen was a pain but ironing it is easy.
 
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Go for it. :-)

I instantly thought of this picture when I saw your dress, so they're deffinately of a similar style.

love, moons and starrs,
Senti.*
 
<b>Daisies!</b> - I sold a similar dress (in daffodil yellow) a year or so ago - did much better than expected with it and I think the daisies did it.

:)

Carolyn
 
Oooh yes, people *love* daisies! My Uncle's bride even requested I cover their wedding cake with little delicate daisies when I could have covered it in beautiful sugar roses or something... I went right off daisies for months after making them, they're far too fragile to be made out of sugar.

But she and so many of the female guests were so enthused about daisies that I'm sure that word would catch people's eyes.

love, moons and starrs,
Senti.*
 
I always never know if i should put "Daisy" or "Daisies". I think both.

I wonder if this dress would be a handful of years later than your picture. What would the likelihood be that it was more closely and immediately inspired?
 
The cut of the dress actually seems a couple of years later to me... and I guess if the one you have is maybe a US make and the one I have is from a british magazine it could have taken a while for someone to adapt the idea.

Plus the one I have the picture of is a very simplified version, so I'd have thought your designer has maybe expanded upon the idea and embelished it a bit more... especially if they were inspired by that very dress and have to follow copyright rules of making at least 7 (is that right?) changes to the original outfit in order for it to be legally classed as "inspired by" rather than "directly copied".

I'd even say the one you have could be (at a stretch) as late as 1968. Which means that they could easily have a faint memory of the earlier outfit and decided to do something else with the idea.

love, moons and starrs,
Senti.*
 
THis one is actually a little more form fitting/sheathy on the right body, i just didn't clip it enough to my tiny 21/22" waisted gal i think. The main difference i think is the shoulders. If my gal was actually what most women are built like, even though it still isn't a huge size, she would have slightly wide shoulders to be able to really do better justice to the slightly off the shoulder look, or the angled look. (and being a willowy 31" busted mannequin helps sometimes but othertimes doesn't) And of course your dress (why am i saying "your" dress when you don't own that dress..but you know what i mean :) is right on the shoulder. This one has no labels so no clues there.

I do agree , your dress screams a bit more slightly mod to me in lines. I was thinking more myself maybe 1967ish on mine for some reason but then part of me thought differently.
 
I reckon mod on "mine" (I wish! I got the magazine just for that photo I loved the dress so much!) and 67/68 on your too. So I reckon we're obviously hitting the right spots here. :-)

"Mine" seems very mod, quite british early sixties with the simple lines and black and white combination. Where as yours is a groovier more far out non-British version from a later era using bolder brighter colouring, a girlier cut and is all round a far more adventurous and free kind of style.

love, moons and starrs,
Senti.*
 
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