Description - Amazing one of a kind patchwork caftan dress designed by Josefa Ibarra in the late 60s or early 70s. This dress was handmade in Mexico. It pulls over your head with no openings.
Josefa Ibarra (1919-2010) was known as “the mother of Mexican fashion design”. Josefa started making her own clothes during the late 1950s and was noticed by a couple who ran the Mexican concession at Disneyland. She began producing for them and for her small shop in Puerto Vallarta – her designs were never mass produced and only made by local women. In 1963, while shooting The Night of the Iguana, Elizabeth Taylor discovered her shop, and became a regular customer over the next decade. Josefa went on to open a chain of retail stores in Mexico and exported her garments to Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth avenue, Lord & Taylor and Macy’s as well as overseas. Her clientele included Sophia Loren, Diana Ross, Princess Grace, Nancy Reagan and other celebrities. She became the first Mexican dress designer to have work featured on the cover of Vogue Paris. She retired from designing clothing in the late 1980s. (This info was written by Vintage Fan Attic for the Vintage Fashion Guild designer resource)
Details
Brand - Josefa
Content - 100% Cotton
Size - I think this would fit a modern XS-Small best but please check all measurements to ensure fit. Please note that you will have to get it over your head and the fabric does not stretch. I'm a modern Medium and it is too small for me.
Shoulders - 13.25" across
Chest - 18.5" pit to pit
Sleeves - 21.25"
Waist - approximately 23.25" across
Hips - approximately 30" across
Length - 54.5"
Condition - I found a few minor imperfections as pictured but no major flaws. I don't see any holes.
