Vintage Wedding Dress...Age pic heavy.

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inkedpalm

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Hi, this lovely dress was found just this morning when I dropped my darlink off at work and noticed a bag sitting by the back gate where his company keeps their big truck. I just threw it in my van because it was still dark outside. Well, here it is, you can imagine my face when the bag contained this lovely dress. It is in great condition. Could use a good cleaning, but I find only one very teensy hole, the lace is still all intact. It even has its own slip. It has a beautiful long train. Nadine p.s. sorry about the wrinkles, I was anxious to get some feedback. :)

There are underarm pads that say, "Rand" any help would be appreciated as to age, style, kind of lace etc...ect...:help:
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Originally posted by Elsewhere
OhMyWord.

Someone was throwing this away???

I'm thinking this looks kinda Deco, with the placement of the lace. I would think 1930's.

It's really lovely!!
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I couldn't believe it either. I live in a town that is Estate Sale heavy, once was a retirement community. You'd be surprised what the children of parents who have passed give away. But this was just thrown, like out of a car or something. There are also some very vintage hankies that were inside. 30's!!! OH MY! That would thrill me!
 
Originally posted by Midge
What a lucky find - congrats :clapping: ! This dress is soooo beautiful!

Karin
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I know, I can't believe it, when you consider all the musky, dirty, dusty sheds, garages, and broken boxes I go through just to find one garment even remotely worthy. lol
 
The front is just lovely - I would go with late 30's - congrats! I can't believe you just picked up a bag and put it in your van - !! Around here the bag would probably have deer parts from an animal that had been "jacked."
 
Originally posted by amandainvermont
The front is just lovely - I would go with late 30's - congrats! I can't believe you just picked up a bag and put it in your van - !! Around here the bag would probably have deer parts from an animal that had been "jacked."
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Oh Lordy! Deer parts!! lol Do you think a dress like this can handle taking it to a cleaners? Should I have it cleaned. I am frightened to death to put it on eBay but that is my only form of selling right now. Nadine
 
Originally posted by missproper
:wow22: I want to live in your town!!
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If only it happened every day! But I do get a good surplus of vintage items around here, now I need a surplus of $$ to buy it up. :hysterical: Nadine
 
Nice score Nadine! I agree with the others and would date it to 1938-1940.

The "underarm pads" are underarm protectors, to protect the dress from perspiration. I sewed some into my (also '30s) dress for my wedding day. Remove them - they're icky anyway. Back in the day, a wearer would take them out, wash them and sew them back in.

I would sell as is, as cleaning could damage it and it looks to be in good condition. Good for you to pick up the bag! I lived in London for a while, where any unattended bag might be a bomb. I still treat them with great suspicion and would be extremely unlikely to take one home. Wonder how it got there? It's an odd thing to just dump like that. Always amazes me what people throw out.

Nicole
 
It's an amazing find and you were obviously meant to find it. I'm very happy you did! I'm also very amazed at what people throw away.

An acquaintance of mine told me a story about her great aunt who died about 12 years ago. She, her mother and sister went over to the house to clear it out. The great aunt was from a very wealthy family in the North West of England. They'd take her to London once a year to buy all her clothes. When she reached eighteen, her father would take her to Paris once a year to buy her clothes. NICE!! Can you imagine the fabulous gowns, shoes, handbags that she must have accumulated over the years . . . . .?

Anyway, what did they do with all her fabulous clothes? They put them all in bin-bags and put them in a rubbish dump :flaming: :booze: :USEROCKY: Bet her great aunt was (and still is) turning in her grave! Gggrrrrrr!

I couldn't believe what she was telling me! I asked her what on earth they'd done that for (she knows I collect and sell vintage) and she simply said "we just didn't realise the importance of vintage clothing at the time" :duh2: Did I mention she's a lawyer? Not the 'brightest button in the box' it appears! :wacko:

I think of that story every time I see her and would dearly love to knock her block off every time! Luckily I don't see her that often!
 
Originally posted by CircaVintageClothing
Nice score Nadine! I agree with the others and would date it to 1938-1940.

The "underarm pads" are underarm protectors, to protect the dress from perspiration. I sewed some into my (also '30s) dress for my wedding day. Remove them - they're icky anyway. Back in the day, a wearer would take them out, wash them and sew them back in.

I would sell as is, as cleaning could damage it and it looks to be in good condition. Good for you to pick up the bag! I lived in London for a while, where any unattended bag might be a bomb. I still treat them with great suspicion and would be extremely unlikely to take one home. Wonder how it got there? It's an odd thing to just dump like that. Always amazes me what people throw out.

Nicole
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Nicole! I took the pads out! ewwwww!! Thank you so much for the answer on the cleaning, I cannot tell you the loses I've had due to cleaning. Because of the large Estate Sales that go on here there are bags left anywhere there is a public trash bin. Weird, I know. lazy people. I have some gorgeous wool sweaters I found in another bag a couple months back. I'm grateful for the finds. I don't get people, but then again, I LOVE VINTAGE and they see OLD.
Nadine
 
Originally posted by cat123creative
It's an amazing find and you were obviously meant to find it. I'm very happy you did! I'm also very amazed at what people throw away.

An acquaintance of mine told me a story about her great aunt who died about 12 years ago. She, her mother and sister went over to the house to clear it out. The great aunt was from a very wealthy family in the North West of England. They'd take her to London once a year to buy all her clothes. When she reached eighteen, her father would take her to Paris once a year to buy her clothes. NICE!! Can you imagine the fabulous gowns, shoes, handbags that she must have accumulated over the years . . . . .?

Anyway, what did they do with all her fabulous clothes? They put them all in bin-bags and put them in a rubbish dump :flaming: :booze: :USEROCKY: Bet her great aunt was (and still is) turning in her grave! Gggrrrrrr!

I couldn't believe what she was telling me! I asked her what on earth they'd done that for (she knows I collect and sell vintage) and she simply said "we just didn't realise the importance of vintage clothing at the time" :duh2: Did I mention she's a lawyer? Not the 'brightest button in the box' it appears! :wacko:

I think of that story every time I see her and would dearly love to knock her block off every time! Luckily I don't see her that often!
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I see this all the time. Drives me insane. :damnit:
Nadine
 
Serendipity! Meant for you, what a beautiful find and under such strange circumstances. You were the one who was meant to save it from ending up in a trash heap.

Oh, the stories I have heard and continue to hear about wonderful vintage being tossed or given away to thrifts...funny you never see the good vintage more often at the thrifts when so many still seem to give it away. I'm sure a lot of it is picked over first and the public gets only leftovers in most cases now.
 
Oh, I could tell a few stories too... Here in Zurich, everything is pretty regulated and steered towards people taking their trash apart (paper and glass don't go into "normal" trash) etc., and it's how I grew up. And I grew up with re-using things, altering clothes to keep wearing them - not out of a financial necessity, but because if you still like it, you do what you can to keep it.

My best friend lives in Vienna, and there, they have special trash bins for PET-bottles and glass, but nothing else is regulated. My friend lives in a part of town that has both the yuppies who seem to have too much money, and the people who have lived there all their life. You should see what some of those yuppies throw away... no matter if it's food, clothes (good brands) or whatever. There are a few houses (including where she lives and where her mother lives) where she regularly checks the room where the trash bins are. She finds food that's still edible, and often clothes or shoes that she can either wash and wear - or pass on. Total thoughtlessness it seems. She has a good job, it's not like she needs to do this, but I can understand her doing it.

Speaking of vintage treasures thrown away... when my grandpa had to move to an old people's home last year, my parents and my uncles and aunts went to clean out his apartment (I couldn't go since I had to work that day). He was a hairdresser and had a shop in a well-known Swiss ski station, and my grandma used to run the cosmetics/perfume part of the shop. She was a very chic lady with a lot of taste (though she passed away too early for me to remember a lot). Well... there turned up a small clutch bag that of hers that grandpa had obviously kept (he didn't keep her clothes or such things when she passed away). My aunts, both being not very fashion-minded, I admit, didn't think much of it and wanted to throw it away - thankfully my mother saw it and saved it :USEGUN:. It was a Pucci...

Karin
 
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Some dresses you will like the most. You would not like to throw it out. I also feel like that.

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