Mens? ethnic print acetate dressing gown

[Pinkcoke]

Keep wanting to call this paisley print...despite the fact there's not one on it! Has a very 70's vibe to me, the trademark Tootal has been registered since 1953 and I've seen a few others in more traditional colours dating around the 60s Maybe its just the colour shouting out to me?? What would you call this print and do you think I'm in the right area?

 

[Vinclothes]

I have had prints similar to this and I called them geometric paisley prints. I feels 1960's to me.

Marian

 

[Linn]

Could also be early '70's. Lots of orange and brown in the early '70's.

 

[MyVintageCocktail]

I'm having SUCH a brain lapse right now.... I'm sure there's is a word (not paisley) for this type of print, but I'll be darned if I can recall it to the front of my brain right now.

In any event, I think this could be 50s or 70s. I have a men's necktie in a very similar print and colorway, which was sold as 70s. But, after handling it and looking at it, I am sure it's 50s. I do lean 70s on this robe, though, mostly because of the label. And I'm not sure about this much pattern in a 50s' robe. Ties and hankies and such, yes, but not sure about an entire garment. But, what is the fiber?

 

[Circa Vintage Clothing]

I love Tootal! I often wear Tootal cravats and scooter scarves, in fact I'm wearing one today.

Agree with '70s on this dressing gown.

Nicole

 

[cmpollack]

Even though the scale of this is bigger than what you'd find in a foulard tie, I'd probably call it a "foulard pattern".

Love it!

 

[MyVintageCocktail]

Carrie, that's what my brain was trying to find yesterday, and do you know--I woke up this morning at about 5:30, and it had come to me.... LOL. I guess the older I get, I need to allow my brain several hours to process a quandary and find the answer somewhere in the depths....

 

[Pinkcoke]

Anne the pictured label says made from 'Dicel' fibre but a side seam label just says Acetate on a blank label, next to a care label (this would probably rule out the 50's vote for def. ;)

Carrie that's great thankyou, does a 'foulard' pattern just suggest the diamond shapes in the print or the medallions too?

 

[MyVintageCocktail]

Oh, you know, I totally missed that you had said in your title that it was acetate--duh on me!

And a foulard pattern doesn't refer in particular to either the medallions or the diamonds; it is a repeating geometric shape, normally small in scale (as Carrie mentioned) like on a scarf or a neck tie. Normally you would have either the diamonds OR the medallions repeated in a foulard pattern, but this still could be called a foulard, I think. It's kind of a combo-foulard pattern! Or a "multi foulard" one....

 

[Trish]

I'd say paisley-esque.