Need Help Identifying a Georgia Bullock Dress

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eristhecat

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Good morning! I have been having some trouble identifying this piece. I've found some of her pieces, though none that even slightly resemble the one I have.

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Much of what is known of Georgia Bullock, herself, can be found here.
Her first job in the fashion world was a a floor model for Bullock's Wilshire store. Though you might think so, Georgia Bullock was no relation to the Bullock's retail family. Georgia Bullock had her own line briefly in the 1940s, but by 1953, she was designing for Nelly Don in Kansas City. In 1954, Bullock returned to Los Angeles and founded the first corporation in the fashion world with an all female executive team. Her line of simple, elegant and expensive fashions was very popular in the late 1950s and 1960s and was sold in the finest shops and department stores all across the U.S. When her clothing became popular with women of means, Bullock began having private fashion shows on the tennis courts of her Holmby Hills home. Bullock continued to have private showings for her elite clientele after she moved to Palm Springs in the 1970s. She stopped designing sometime in the late 1970s and died in 1991.
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I'm unsure as to what date, style, and material this is and if there is a specific name for the pattern style on the material, itself.

It has a zipper opening, mid back, that stops at the hip line.
It has a "mock" button opening in the front.

Thanks in advance for your help! :)
 
Hi, it looks like a 1960's fitted dress, the material looks synthetic knit to me, I would have said crimplene myself except this doesn't quite match with the description above (crimplene was a very affordable fabric, though maybe it was more upmarket in the first decade of it's arrival?) The pattern looks very much like a moroccan tiled effect.
 
I agree with Melanie with the synthetic knit, but I think it might be a polyester double knit. My first thought was early '70s but there silhouette is late '60s. I think it's safe to put it as a late '60s to early '70s dress.
 
I agree with Nicole on this being a polyester double knit. Crimplene tends to have more of a pebbly texture to it. I think this is late 60s, possibly
very early 70s.

Sue
 
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