This 1960s, size 8 empire waist mod dress is so cute! It has groovy red embroidered dots on the bracelet length sleeves accentuated with embroidered scalloped edging. It has a flattering a-line shape.

No major flaws, rips or tears. There is a very tiny mark on the inside of the left sleeve that’s about 0. 25” in size that a cleaner could get out. We’ve reduced the price of the dress to accommodate this tiny flaw.

Designed by Eloise Curtis for David Styne
(Her bio below fyi)

Bust: 36
Waist: 34
Hip: 40
Length: 40
Sleeve: 20

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*DRY CLEAN OPTION
We offer to have your garment professionally dry cleaned before sending it out to you. This is merely an option that some of our customers like to do so the garment is freshly laundered upon arrival but is not necessary to purchase the item. We use a local professional dry cleaner.

ABOUT THE DESIGNER
Designer Eloise Curtis (b. c1922) left her native Arkansas for New York in September of 1939 to study at the American School of Design. She worked as a sketcher at a junior-sized dress firm and then for a short period as the head designer for a sportswear firm before landing a job as head designer for Junior Accent.

Curtis worked at Junior Accent as their head designer for eight years as well as designing a collection of two for Park Lane Juniors before leaving both in 1956 to found her own firm, Eloise Curtis. Her first collections under her own label were simple, relaxed and uncontrived, with smocks and wraparound styles of matte jersey. Her later collections were often based in wool and cotton, with easy lines and sharp contrasts in fresh, lively colors.

The firm had gone bankrupt by late 1963, and Curtis quickly moved into designing for David Styne. Her designs for Styne were developed with the fashion-conscious woman on a budget in mind, but by the late 1960’s had moved towards a more fashion-forward, counter-revolutionary aesthetic, with velvets and organzas hearkening back to eras past. This approach caught the eye of Carl Rosen of Puritan, who in 1968 created a separate junior miss division - Happenstance - just for her. Under her guidance as head designer, Happenstance designs were chic and on-trend misses’ clothes designed for all times of day and all walks of life.

After Happenstance closed, Curtis took a year off to travel before - in April 1973 - she founded Eloise Curtis International, Ltd. to design under her own label once more. After tax issues and other financial difficulties, the house closed in the 1980’s.

Curtis died in 1990.

This item is sold from an excellent, highly rated vintage boutique in Jacksonville, Florida.