Looks like R&K wasn't always hideous knit 70s dresses.

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hatfeathers

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Looks like R&K wasn\'t always hideous knit 70s dresses.

The problem with dealing and loving vintage is wanting to keep stuff! I adore this dress...I wanna keep it....cannnooootttt kkkeeeepp dddrrreesss!

Anyway, I was floored when I saw the tag R & K in this. Every R&K item I've picked up in my years of searching has been a hideous knit hot orange or pink monster.
Maybe it's like those fashionable ladies who dress great until they get older, then when the eyesight goes the bright floral patterns come out.

Either way...some eye candy:

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:o :wow: The detail on the skirt is absolutely breathtaking and your pictures are outstanding.
 
NICE!!

R&K had some cute things in the 50s - and i think they go back to post war. We have went back and forth about them quite a bit here in the past. I should look for the thread on it...i don't think we really posted clothing to show, though. Anything i have ever had of R&K has always sold.
 
I have a couple of really nice very late 40s dresses by R&K, and I look out for them.

This is great. Does this have the 'Personally Yours' tag or the 'Girl who knows clothes' one - I've worked out from ads that the Personally Yours one went up to about 1952-53.

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Jenn, further query: does this have a creamy yellow background to the label or a white? I'm not really sure about the colour difference, as it's not a noticable change in label style, but I also have a sneaking suspicion that white may have been slightly earlier than yellow. I haven't worked out the precise boundary yet...

This is really making me think of 19th century dress decoration - wonder whether that was intentional?

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white is the background for 60s/70s stuff but that is the "for the girl that knows clothes" not the "personally yours" labels that you are referring.
 
No, it's just that I have 'Personally Yours' dresses with both white and yellow backgrounds, and I've been wondering whether there's a time difference at all...
 
Since there was so much talk about the label, I thought I'd modify the pic and include a shot of it.

The back color is like a cream, coffee stain color.
Would this make it earlier than 1950? Surely not much earlier, with the mile of fabric.

Jenn
 
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