The last of my finds of the last four weeks... this slightly kitschy nylon tricot slip. I'm just curious about dating it. It was a dead stock piece, with a still attached paper tag. In all six Humana shops we visited, we found several similar or same slips and nighty & negligee sets with these Italian labels - they must have gotten loads of them. There were other colors too, but they were all bigger. Other colors of the same or similar slips were white, pink, lilac and lemon yellow - a whole rainbow!
The paper tag talks about how to wash and iron the nylon fabric, and in general about it's advantages - at least that's what I understand with my sparse knowledge of Italian. So nylon was officially called "nailon" in Italy. The maker of this slip was Gara, about which I found nothing. Rhodiatoce it seems was the official maker of nylon fabrics. The company was colled Rhodiatoce as of 1951, but until when that name was used isn't clear to me.
My initial though on dating this had been 1960s?
Second up - this was the first vintage slip I ever bought. By Hanro, nylon tricot and lace, non-adjustable straps. The Hanro logo is classic and was used for a long time. Shop label is from Wollen-Keller in Zurich, which doesn't exist anymore. The trade register says it was first registered there in 1957, but other search results point to the fact that a shop of that name already existed by the early 1930s...
It's actually fairly long - someone had just shortened it, I later opened that seam to let it down to full length. My hunch was 1960s as well... but then I'm not sure the size XS already existed then? Hanro exported a lot, so I'm not surprised at their using this English way of sizing things. I'd like to submit Hanro to the label resource too with a short company description.
Thanks!
Karin
The paper tag talks about how to wash and iron the nylon fabric, and in general about it's advantages - at least that's what I understand with my sparse knowledge of Italian. So nylon was officially called "nailon" in Italy. The maker of this slip was Gara, about which I found nothing. Rhodiatoce it seems was the official maker of nylon fabrics. The company was colled Rhodiatoce as of 1951, but until when that name was used isn't clear to me.
My initial though on dating this had been 1960s?
Second up - this was the first vintage slip I ever bought. By Hanro, nylon tricot and lace, non-adjustable straps. The Hanro logo is classic and was used for a long time. Shop label is from Wollen-Keller in Zurich, which doesn't exist anymore. The trade register says it was first registered there in 1957, but other search results point to the fact that a shop of that name already existed by the early 1930s...
It's actually fairly long - someone had just shortened it, I later opened that seam to let it down to full length. My hunch was 1960s as well... but then I'm not sure the size XS already existed then? Hanro exported a lot, so I'm not surprised at their using this English way of sizing things. I'd like to submit Hanro to the label resource too with a short company description.
Thanks!
Karin
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