Who is Angela Gore!

[gracie tandy]

Hi everyone,

I’ve recently got into vintage fashion and there’s one brand i'm absolutely in love with. ‘Angela Gore’.
I now own three of her dresses , but can find no information if this was a real person, if they had a store, anything!
I would greatly appreciate any help
Gracie x

 

[gracie tandy]

heres the dresses for anyone interested!

 

[lkranieri]

Please post a photo of the label. Thank you.

 

[gracie tandy]

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[lkranieri]

It seems Angela Gore "built her reputation on nightdresses and negligees." I think the first non-lingerie ad I saw for her creations was in 1970 when according to a 1971 article, "she branched into very feminine informal evening dresses." I think the last mention I found of her was in a classified ad from around 1992.

 

[retro ruth]

I had an Angela Gore dress once: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/204...how_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details

I know I found some articles about her when I was researching that dress but I haven't kept them, but as per my listing I decided she was a "British boutique designer"

 

[retro ruth]

There's some fashion magazine photos featuring her clothes here: https://lizeggleston.com/category/designers/angela-gore/

 

[gracie tandy]

Thank you! Yes i did look the brand up on Liz’s website i just wish there was more info on the designer .. i think i found that she was called Angela Boys through the company’s gov info. Interesting!

 

[lkranieri]

A 1972 article about Gore noted her Angela Gore name "is a derivative of Angela Boys and her erst-while Scottish partner Daphne Gore" The article further adds that she is "a one-woman band and Angela Boys presides, designs, chooses fabrics, and interviews buyers." Angela Boys, they add, is doing extremely well, in spite of having no orthodox training and that she learned dressmaking at school in Switzerland. They continue: "Miss Boys began her dressmaking career making peignoirs for Wollands," but since the demand for those were limited she began making evening dresses.

In addition to her dressmaking, Angela Boys bred dogs, as a 1973 article noted about her: "...forty-three-year-old Miss Boys is a dress designer by trade, but has been breeding Hungarian Vizsla pointing dogs for four years."

 

[gracie tandy]

wow amazing information!! thank you so much for finding this out for me!

 

[lkranieri]

wow amazing information!! thank you so much for finding this out for me!

Thank you...and please note I just added just a bit more to that post.

 

[GemGem]

Beautiful! Dresses