Vintage Biba?

[gracie tandy]

I found this in a charity shop last week, and i just can’t tell if this is vintage biba as the label is different to the 60s ones ?

 

[BlackLotusVintage]

That is fabulous, What a find! I do believe that is a 1970's baba label, when they slimmed down their rounded lettering.

You can read about that in our label resource here

 

[gracie tandy]

Oh wow thank you!

 

[Jonathan]

Are you in the US? I think its one of the things made for the US market because English Biba stuff never has fabric content in it, as far as I know, but it was required for exports and Biba was sold at shops within stores.

 

[gracie tandy]

Are you in the US? I think its one of the things made for the US market because English Biba stuff never has fabric content in it, as far as I know, but it was required for exports and Biba was sold at shops within stores.

Hi, no i’m not im near London!

 

[Jonathan]

That's interesting - I went through virtually every piece of Biba at the Kerry Taylor auction and only found a content label in one piece, which was post 1975 (not Barbara Hualaniki for Biba), perhaps its post 1975, it does look right around then....

 

[gracie tandy]

Funnily enough i’ve got another one with the care labels inside

 

[Circa Vintage Clothing]

Gracie, is the bust measurement 34 inches or close to it? Because if so, it's a modern size, not a '60s-70s size.

Are there any other labels?

Nicole

 

[gracie tandy]

Hi it’s defo smaller that a modern 10, there’s also a little red 70s sizing label behind the biba tag saying ‘10’