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Simplicity 8704, girls' dress designed by Jessica McClintock for Gunne Sax. Dress with back zipper has double ruffled skirt gathered to buttoned trimmed band, single layer collar, vestee, and bow. V.1 and 2 have lace trim. V 1 has short sleeves with bands. V.2 has long sleeves with buttoned cuffs. V. 1 and sleeveless V. 3 have ribbon trim.

Simplicity 8704
1988
Size 10-12-14
Breast 28 1/2-30- 32
Uncut, complete, original factory folds.

At the height of the hippie movement, Jessica McClintock joined the San Franciscan Gunne Sax Company to design their long, calico, lace-trimmed dresses, very popular with the young. Besides "granny" dresses, McClintock also designed lace-trimmed denim clothes and combined lace with linen. By the 1970s she had added prom dresses and wedding gowns, continuing to use lavish lace trim, which had become her trademark.

When the more contemporary Jessica McClintock line was introduced in 1979, Gunne Sax became the little girls' division, for which the calico, ruffled lace trimmed dresses were eminently suitable. In her San Francisco shop McClintock sold accessories, cosmetics, and her higher-priced designs, but it was for her feminine alternative to the hard-edged emerging high tech trends in fashion that she became known. A moderately priced Scott McClintock line specialized in misses' dresses and sportswear, all with the romantic McClintock look, but more sophisticated than Gunne Sax.

Gunne Sax dresses for teenagers featured ribbons, ruffles, Victorian lace collars, ballerina length skirts. In the mid-1980s McClintock drew her inspiration for misses' dresses from the 1920s, combining straight silhouettes, loose enough for maternity wear, with Victorian details of lace insertions, peplums, or high collars. McClintock designed 2,500 outfits per year, each with her unique romantic touches and femininity. The Jessica McClintock label, aimed at women in their 20s and 30s, offered special occasion ready-to-wear at relatively moderate designer label prices. From the Fashion Encyclopedia
http://www.fashionencyclopedia.com/Ma-Mu/Mcclintock-Jessica.html

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