Yes, except those were the earlier 50s version with the full skirts.
I wore those in junior high but the Villager shirtwaist never came in
style where I was in southern CA. What was really in style, for the
guys, in the early to mid 60s, in So. Cal was the surfer look. Did
that make it across the country?
Sylvia
On Jul 5, 2009, at 7:11 PM, landofoz wrote:
Whoops--sorry for the blank post. Yes, Villager was a brand. A
shirtwaist, at least in 1960s terminology, is a dress with a
fitted bodice--bust and
waist darts--and buttons down the center front--attached to a
skirt. It
could be full in the 1950s or early 1960s, but by the late '60s
was often
A-line. The fabric was often a cotton with a floral sort of
serpentine
print. To make the style work with a full skirt, there was a slit
placket
opening at center front, or, sometimes, an underarm zipper. I
never had an
authentic Villager dress, but merely homemade styles (that I made
myself.) I
still have the pattern I used, Simplity 8296 from 1969. The A-
line view had
the underarm zipper. I think I used another pattern for the full-
skirted
view, which had a slit placket but no underarm zipper.
Dresses could have short sleeves with a turned up cuff, or long
sleeves
with a button cuff, and a convertible collar.
Would this be similar to the day dresses worn on shows like Leave
it to Beaver and I Love Lucy?
Denise B
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