Liberty House Dress?? Label Date???

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I bought this beautiful dress for $2.00 today. I don't see this Liberty house label in the label resource. Any ideas on how old this dress is?? It seems very old, yet the label doesn't look that old to me and it is folded in half (see photos). The quality doesn't seem to be that great, look at the uneven seams on the inside. Is this an imitation?? Did they actually fake these?









 
Liberty House is the island version of a department store, similar to a mainland stores such as Younkers or Brandeis or Marshalls. McInerny was their other local dept store that did very well.

They have their own line of clothing manufactured for them on Oahu, and have for quite a few years.

That print looks very late 80s/early 90s; they did aLOT of retro-60's looks including printing on barkcloth-textured fabrics (there were TONS of them there from Japan). and no, there would really be no need to fake a Liberty House label garment.

looks cute, though.
 
Funnily enough I came across a Liberty House just yesterday. I hadn't heard of it but didn't buy it because a) it was modern (well 80s-90s) and b) poor quality as well as c) poor condition.

I agree with Mary on the dates on yours. I like yours a lot better than the one I found yesterday!

Nicole
 
Aloha -

Liberty House was sold to Macy's in 2001. It was a very old department store - started in 1949., originally called Hatfields. There was a branch in San Francisco in Union Square which closed some time ago - maybe in the '80's.

I did not grow up in Hawaii, but have lived here since 1972 and still have my Libery House charge card - a fond souvenir.

Here's a brief article in that I googled about the sale of LH to Macy's.

http://archives.starbulletin.com/2001/06/20/news/story2.html

Linn
 
I have a maxi dress that's labelled, ' Tori Richard for Liberty House'. I bought it from Hawaii and it was sold to me as Vintage. I will go hunt it out and post a a pic of the label. I always though mine was 70's...but seeing your dress & label, and reading the replies...I'm now not so sure..... :sunshine:
 
Tori Richard is still in business.

When I moved to Hawaii in the early '70's I wore "aloha attire" but now, I do not - and don't even own any. However, my husband wears aloha shirts all the time. Business attire for men is a nice pair of dress pants or khaki's with an aloha shirt - tucked into the slacks and worn with a belt. Whenever anything says "aloha attire" that is what men wear. My attire would depend on the time of year, but the closet thing I own to this is my 1950's Alfred Shaheen - LOL.

Linn
 
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