Here comes the star piece among my finds form my trip to Vienna. Someone who had money in the 80s must have donated their clothing to Humana. I tried on a load of Ungaro Parallele dresses and jackets, all the same size, all 80s in two Humana shops. I had suspected this was the RTW label and checking the VFG label resource of course proved me right.
They were all gorgeous - all woolens or silks, beautiful colors and prints, and one an uber-glamourous silver lamé cocktail dress. They all fit, but some were in a rather sorry state, and most of them had such big shoulder pads, that I had to let them go - just too top heavy for someone like me.
Well, one dress had smaller shoulder pads, and the shoulders were much rounder and not that edgy, plus the colors screamed "me":
It doesn't photograph well... the blue fabric is a deep turquoise and pretty certainly silk, the velvet is a very dark deep red-brown. Very soft, probably a rayon or rayon-silk mix. I can't get it on my manni as it's pretty tight. Nice touch: small zips at the very slender cuffs.
It's bady creased and there are some open seams in the back, but I think after dry-cleaning and fixing it, it should look stunning. The fabrics are in good condition, no bad imprints on the velvet and no torn threads in the silk, and no nasty spots.
The labels intrigued me a bit though, and that 's where I come to my question. The Ungaro Parllele label is fine, as is the Made in Italy label, all the other dresses had these too, placed in the same spot to the right of the Ungaro label, at the collar or the shoulder.
What the others had as well, on the side of the Made in Italy label was a fabric content and I think style number label. This was farly big, light green and felt like Pellon or something papery like that and looked like it had been written on with a typewriter (fabric contents and the other numbers). This one is obviously missing here - maybe it was removed, maybe it got lost along the way. What they all also had was this little fabric label with numbers, which was also sewn in, and about which I have been wondering. The other dresses had it sewn in to the left of the Ungaro label. Here it was tacked to the Ungaro label - I have since removed that tack, because it's metal and might start to rust. I was wondering what these numbers could be all about. Any ideas? I though of a dry-cleaning label, but they're just temporary, so this seems a bit too much for that...
As there are quite a few Ungaro labels in the LR, maybe someone here has some more experience with their 80s dresses?
Karin
They were all gorgeous - all woolens or silks, beautiful colors and prints, and one an uber-glamourous silver lamé cocktail dress. They all fit, but some were in a rather sorry state, and most of them had such big shoulder pads, that I had to let them go - just too top heavy for someone like me.
Well, one dress had smaller shoulder pads, and the shoulders were much rounder and not that edgy, plus the colors screamed "me":
It doesn't photograph well... the blue fabric is a deep turquoise and pretty certainly silk, the velvet is a very dark deep red-brown. Very soft, probably a rayon or rayon-silk mix. I can't get it on my manni as it's pretty tight. Nice touch: small zips at the very slender cuffs.
It's bady creased and there are some open seams in the back, but I think after dry-cleaning and fixing it, it should look stunning. The fabrics are in good condition, no bad imprints on the velvet and no torn threads in the silk, and no nasty spots.
The labels intrigued me a bit though, and that 's where I come to my question. The Ungaro Parllele label is fine, as is the Made in Italy label, all the other dresses had these too, placed in the same spot to the right of the Ungaro label, at the collar or the shoulder.
What the others had as well, on the side of the Made in Italy label was a fabric content and I think style number label. This was farly big, light green and felt like Pellon or something papery like that and looked like it had been written on with a typewriter (fabric contents and the other numbers). This one is obviously missing here - maybe it was removed, maybe it got lost along the way. What they all also had was this little fabric label with numbers, which was also sewn in, and about which I have been wondering. The other dresses had it sewn in to the left of the Ungaro label. Here it was tacked to the Ungaro label - I have since removed that tack, because it's metal and might start to rust. I was wondering what these numbers could be all about. Any ideas? I though of a dry-cleaning label, but they're just temporary, so this seems a bit too much for that...
As there are quite a few Ungaro labels in the LR, maybe someone here has some more experience with their 80s dresses?
Karin
. The dress is a the dry-cleaners now and after that I'll have to re-sew the buttons and address some other mending issues - it was ok to send it to the cleaners like that, but to be able to wear it, it needs to have a few more things fixed. Anyway, for what it is it was a bargain. And trying these kinds of things on also teaches one a few things about what to look for regarding in a quality garment - how they're made, what the fabric feels like etc.