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To accompany my Barbizon label dating resource, here are some fairly random notes and information about the different types of vintage slips and petticoats made by the Barbizon Corporation which may help to put your item into fashion history context. This is a compilation of quotes and snippets of information gleaned from Barbizon advertising while researching for my vintage label resource and which may prove useful in identification. It would be a shame not to document at least some of it...
Article: The amazing Miss Thelma Becker, Barbizon lingerie consultant.
The ultimate guide to dating Barbizon slips and petticoats by their labels and fabric. When were Barbizon slips made? Find out how to date vintage Barbizon lingerie by visiting our label dating resource page.
As a supplier of fine vintage lingerie to film and TV studios, I know that costume designers will usually insist that the lovely items they purchase from me are, to the fraction of a decade, dated accurately and they ask me to prove it. So they should. Provenance and context in fashion history means everything to them, and me too. So, how can we tell when vintage clothes were made? A good personal knowledge of fashion history helps of course, along with a grasp of when certain brands and trademarks existed. But these things can only ever be approximate. It is possible to do a vintage clothing label search online, but they are often reliant on donated images and, who knows, the contributor could be too vague in their label dating efforts, or even wrong. One hugely useful and accurate method involves scanning through literally hundreds of vintage clothing ads in newspaper archives. Trust me, it is toe-curlingly tedious hard work and involves expensive subscriptions to archives but it is well worth the effort if one is to constantly add value to stock assets that may end up on a film set. Newspaper ads are fail-safe. They date an item not to a vague 'give-or-take-a-decade' but to an actual date on a calendar. That's super accurate. You can track the availability of a garment type throughout it's commercial lifespan by following trails left by vintage clothing ads. Some vintage clothing styles were produced and sold for well over a decade, but some were only in existence for a year or two before being discontinued and replaced. Without provenance in fashion history context, a vintage item will never truly come to life.
Article written by Emma Benitez. BA (Hons) in Fashion and Dress History, incurable vintage aficionado and owner of Nylon Nostalgia.
Emma is a fabric specialist for a lingerie manufacturer with operations in both Europe and Asia. She has also supplied fine vintage lingerie to media production companies, fashion designers and private collectors worldwide since 2009.
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