National Recovery Board Label Jacket - Help with date please

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This jacket has the National Recovery Board label - used mid 30s to 60s. VFG shows a similar label from the 1940s, but on the 40s label is a box surrounding the letters NPA. My jacket has the same box, but surrounds the letters BDG. Don't know what the significance of that is. Jacket is made for "Country and Town" - couldn't find any reference to this store.

There are two welt pockets at chest level and two flap pockets at hip level and narrow notched lapels. In my books I don't see the use of two welt pockets at chest in the 1960s.

So wondering what era this jacket is from??? If you need more photos please let me know.

Thanks for your help.
 
It looks a little earlier to me. Found this 1955 ad - which might be the same jacket - hard to tell the way the drape of the coat is drawn. I would date the jacket mid-late 1950's or possibly early 1960's but my first thought was 1950's.
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Nicole thank you for straightening me out "once again" . I was thinking Bardley was the maker of the fabric or jacket for country & town. Now that I've looked at some old advertisements I see that this was a way to promote a jacket as you said. That's what I love about vintage, learning is never ending!


And thanks Linn and Joules for helping me with the date on the jacket. That's a fab ensemble you found an ad for, Linn. I would love to own that!

Ladies, you're the best! :spin:
 
I can see why it looks boxy, Nicole, my dress form is too small for this jacket. I wish I could get a photo of myself wearing it. The jacket's rather fitted with 38" at the bust and 32" at the waist.
 
Ah, thank you for the clarification - but it's still not tailored enough for my liking. I'd expect a '50s version to be about 28-30" around the waist with that bust measurement. Perhaps it's a cusper, a late '50s-early '60s? It's not boxy enough to be mid '60s.

Nicole
 
I'm also in the 60's club. The photo of the drawing shows the hemline of the jacket to have a rounded quality at the closure where the two sides meet just under the buttons, this jacket is straight across the bottom and the two sides overlap. Overall, to my eye, it has that early 1960's look about it.
 
I am totally impressed with you one and all!:adore:


I hope some day to possess a pinch of the vintage fashion knowledge you have at your fingertips!!!
 
I still think it's 50's. There were some boxy jackets in the 1950's. I have found ads for them from 1956. There were jackets with rounded hems in the early 1960's. I have found ads for them. Many early 1960's jackets were cropped. Most of the jackets that I have found from the early 1960's are less fitted than this one and most of them have 3/4 length sleeves, a typical early 1960's characteristic - but as the 1958 ad I've pasted in below shows 3/4 sleeves were shown in the late 1950's, too. IMO - the notched collar and cut of this jacket - and the welt pockets look more 1950's to me than 1960's. But, I have also seen very fitted suits from 1960 so you can never say never.

I spent way too much time playing on the Newspaper Archive earlier today. I found an ad that mentions "for Town and Country" - from 1952 and suits from the Town and Country Shop at Flah's in Syracuse (there was a Flah's in Albany where I grew up - LOL.) This is the only for "Country and Town" ad that I found and it's from 1958 - but if I didn't know that I'd think it was early 1960's!!!!
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I didn't find the jacket we are discusing but this 1961 Bardely suit illustrates why I don't think the jacket is 1960's.

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Do we know how long into the 1960's the National Recovery Board label was used?
 
Thank you Linn for all the time you spent looking for informaiton on this jacket. The archive images you pulled up are very helpful to see.

I was unable to find a 60s cut off date for the National Recovery Board Label. I'll call the Ohio State University Historic Costume Collection. Maybe they'll have the answer.
 
I am bumping this very old thread because I have some information to add about the National Coat and Suit Recovery Board, and also wanted a place to park a potential resource archive.

I try not to add to my stock of coats these days - so expensive to ship! But a friend asked my to take two that were her mom's, nice quality boucle, probably late 50s to 60s. One has the NCSRB label. This thread came up in my search, which was helpful and got me started. A little more searching led me to to a website called Open Corporates they give a dissolution date of 1974.

I also found an archive list at Cornell University's Kheel Center for Labor Management Documentation and Archives - they have 11(!) boxes of records relating to the National Coat and Suit Recovery Board, meticulously catalogued. The last annual meeting in their records is 1966 - my impression is that it was a national convention-type meeting although I may be wrong about that. There are records related to meetings of the national executive board dating up to 1970. The newest record I saw was 1972 - "Philadelphia Office - Market - Correspondence".

ETA my label, front and back
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