Lilli Ann label?? Can anyone date?
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Can you post a photo of the skirt please?
MyVintageCocktail
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Yes, please post a photo of the entire skirt.... I'm guessing it'll turn out to 1970s, based on the fiber content--but it's too "iffy" to try and date anything, even by the label, without seeing the item.
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That looks like a fairly standard straight skirt from the late '80s and would have had a matching jacket originally. It also looks like it's been shortened more recently, as it has a top stitched hem and I'd expect it to have been originally sewn with a blind hem.
The inside of the skirt (in the first pic) is completely different to the second - is it lined in some sort of knit? Very unusual. Even the colour is different.
I'm curious about "Antron" on the label, and found out that it was introduced by DuPont in 1960 as a carpet textile but later used in dress fabrics.
The inside of the skirt (in the first pic) is completely different to the second - is it lined in some sort of knit? Very unusual. Even the colour is different.
I'm curious about "Antron" on the label, and found out that it was introduced by DuPont in 1960 as a carpet textile but later used in dress fabrics.
I think it is just that it's been taken in very different lighting. Is the skirt white, as in the first pic, but showing up as yellow in the second?
EndlessAlley
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MyVintageCocktail
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Is there a Union label in this? If not, there was probably one in the matching jacket (as Nicole says, there should have been one).
This is a pretty "standard" skirt style, hard to date (for me, anyway), but I'm still going with 70s due to the Antron and Acrylic fiber content and the "made in USA." Could be 80s, too, but I'd guess earlier rather than later. I should really go check some of my 80s sweaters, but from memory, it seems that the acrylic/antron nylon blends were omnipresent in the 70s, and I don't think I saw a lot of it in the 80s, especially with the "Antron" brand name. I think into the 80s, you get a lot of 100% acrylic knits and some "acrylic/nylon," without the Antron name. Can't put my brain's finger on a timeline of any sort, but those DuPont nylons were wildly popular and in everything, it seems, in the 70s, but not as much into the 80s.
Not that this helps much, but if there's a Union label, that would go a long way to solving the mystery!
This is a pretty "standard" skirt style, hard to date (for me, anyway), but I'm still going with 70s due to the Antron and Acrylic fiber content and the "made in USA." Could be 80s, too, but I'd guess earlier rather than later. I should really go check some of my 80s sweaters, but from memory, it seems that the acrylic/antron nylon blends were omnipresent in the 70s, and I don't think I saw a lot of it in the 80s, especially with the "Antron" brand name. I think into the 80s, you get a lot of 100% acrylic knits and some "acrylic/nylon," without the Antron name. Can't put my brain's finger on a timeline of any sort, but those DuPont nylons were wildly popular and in everything, it seems, in the 70s, but not as much into the 80s.
Not that this helps much, but if there's a Union label, that would go a long way to solving the mystery!