30 results for ILGWU label 1959
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How to Date Vintage Clothing by Labels and Tags
…ing are one of the most precise dating tools available. The ILGWU (International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, founded 1900) and ACWA/ACTWU (Amalgamated Clothing Workers / Amalgamated Clothing and T…
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How to Identify Vintage Clothing: The Complete Expert Guide
…s are labeled 'Made in GDR' or 'Made in DDR'. Union labels: ILGWU (International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union) labels appear from 1900–1995, with design changes every few decades that allow precise …
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Dating clothing by the label
Union labels, RN/WPL/CA numbers, care-label law, fibre-content law, country-of-origin marks. The single best dating tool, when the label survives.…
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Vintage vs Reproduction Clothing: How to Tell the Difference
…ed pieces. Universal Red Flags — Era-Independent Tests Care label present: Any garment with a sewn-in care label was made after 1971. True 1920s flapper dresses have no care labels. If a 'vintage' 192…
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How Much Is Vintage Clothing Worth? A Collector's Complete Valuation Guide
…nd generally lower value unless designer. Designer name and label: A named Dior, Chanel, Balenciaga, or Halston label multiplies value by 3–10× compared to an identical unlabeled piece from the same e…
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What Is Vintage Clothing? Everything You Need to Know
… law that governs the use of the word 'vintage' on clothing labels or in listings. It is an industry consensus. Some dealers and auction houses apply a stricter standard: 25 years, 30 years, or even t…
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1950s Fashion (1950–1959)
The 1950s celebrated femininity with nipped waists, full circle skirts, and pastel color palettes. Dior's New Look continued to influence, w…
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Vintage sizing — what 'size 14' actually meant
A 1950s size 14 is roughly a modern US size 8. Vintage labels are misleading; measurements are the truth. Era-by-era conversion below. Vintage sizing is the most confused area of buying vintage o…
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Antique vs Vintage Clothing: What's the Real Difference?
…m a reputable vintage dealer — the difference is condition, label, and whether it's been authenticated. Authentication requirements differ too. For antique garments, authentication focuses on construc…
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How to Price Vintage Clothing to Sell: A Seller's Complete Guide
…(decade), garment type, fabric, condition, and any designer label. The more specifically you can identify what you have, the more useful your research will be. Step 2: Search eBay completed listings. …
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How to identify a vintage fabric
… Fibre identification is the most reliable dating tool when label evidence is missing. Each fibre has a date of commercial introduction; finding it in a garment establishes an earliest-possible date. …
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Reading the seam — construction-dating clothing
…. How a garment was put together pins down the era when the label is gone. How a garment is sewn is a date constraint at least as reliable as label evidence. Sewing machines were invented in the 1840s…
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Dating clothes by silhouette alone
…th-century pieces to a single decade without looking at the label. Silhouette is the fastest dating method because you can do it across a room. Four variables — hemline position, waist position, shoul…
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1980s Fashion (1980–1989)
… glamour defined boardroom and evening wear alike. Designer labels became status symbols. New Wave fashion and the emergence of street style added subcultural variety. Power suits with shoulder pads, …
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How to Care for Vintage Clothing: The Complete Preservation Guide
Vintage clothing survived decades or centuries to reach you — the wrong cleaning method can destroy it in minutes. This guide covers safe cl…
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How to Store Vintage Clothing: Long-Term Preservation
Proper storage is the most important thing you can do for a vintage garment's long-term survival. More antique clothing has been destroyed b…
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Victorian Fashion History: A Complete Era Guide (1837–1901)
Victorian fashion spans 64 years and five dramatically different silhouettes — from the wide romantic sleeves of the 1840s to the lean tailo…
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Claire McCardell
… and joined Townley Frocks in 1929. She got her name on the label in 1938 — unusual for the period, when American manufacturers rarely credited the designer. She invented or codified most of what is n…
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How to date a vintage zipper
Talon, Conmar, Crown, Lightning, YKK — the zipper is one of the fastest dating clues on any twentieth-century garment. Here is the full brea…
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Dating buttons — bakelite, casein, celluloid, jet
Plastic buttons, glass, mother-of-pearl, jet, bone. Each material has a dating window and a simple identification test. Buttons are a second…
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Closures — hooks-and-eyes, snaps, lacing, velcro
Before the zipper became common in the 1930s, every garment closed some other way. Hooks-and-eyes, snaps, drawstrings, lacing — each has a d…
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Dating clothing by the hem
Hand-rolled, blind-stitched, horsehair-braided, weighted with chain — the hem of a garment is a small craft history. Reading it dates the pi…
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Dating fabric by dye and print
Synthetic dyes (1856 onward), screen printing (1910s–onward), digital printing (1990s onward). Each technique has a date window and a recogn…
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Paris, London, New York, domestic American — regional construction signatures
The same year, four very different interiors. Paris couture, London tailoring, New York Seventh Avenue, American home sewing — each leaves a…
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- Designer
Charles Frederick Worth
… a named designer who dictates rather than executes, signed labels stitched into garments, seasonal collections shown on live mannequins. Empress Eugénie was his client. So was Sarah Bernhardt. By the…
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Roy Halston Frowick
…iner at Bergdorf Goodman. He launched his own ready-to-wear label in 1968. The breakthrough was a recognition that American women in the 1970s wanted clothes that were elegant but unrestricted: matte …
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Azzedine Alaïa
…ld, and others, for nearly two decades. He launched his own label in 1981 and the impact was immediate — the leather-and-jersey body-conscious cut became the dominant Paris look of the mid-1980s. He f…
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Thierry Mugler
…sbourg Opera before turning to fashion. He launched his own label in 1973. The peak Mugler aesthetic — exaggerated shoulders, wasp waist, glossy industrial materials, often with insect or alien refere…
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Yves Saint Laurent
…nd was bought by Gucci Group (later Kering) and the current label is functionally a different house under Anthony Vaccarello (2016–present). Founder-era YSL (1962–2002) is the collected category. Mond…
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Gianni Versace
…n in the early 1970s. He worked for the Genny and Callaghan labels before opening Versace in 1978. The aesthetic was Versace's alone: overt sexuality, baroque ornamentation, references to classical Gr…
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