Hayes Fashions: Dresses Part 2

I’m picking up right where I left off with the Hayes Catalog scans: oodles of dresses.

For those of you who may have missed my prior posts the links are just below if you’d like to see more.

Hayes Fashions: Coats
Hayes Fashions: Dresses Part 1

Let’s jump right in, shall we?

These first three dresses are among my favorites from today’s post:

I love all the small details. The dress on the far left has a cute ‘bow’ made up of cording that is gathered at the center by some sort of clasp. The dress in the middle also has a great neckline detail with a band that goes through tabs. The dress on the far right is a pretty one with all of it’s pintucks.

These are pretty too, the lines of the dresses are more 60’s than 50’s imo.

These are nice simple, shirt-dresses.

Adding inflation these $9.98 dresses would cost $78 today. This seems a bit steep for a basic dresses.

The scallop bodice on the right dress is great. I could see making this in a bright color, like an emerald-green.

These dresses are a bit more reasonable ($62 today) but they look more dressy and nicer to me than the shirt-dresses.

I love all of the button-tab details Hayes uses to accentuate different parts of the figure: hips, shoulders, necklines, etc.

Check out the middle dress: the font bodice is cinched but the back is very loose. I guess it’s a compromise to defining a waist. This seems like a great example of a dress that is in between 50’s and 60’s fashions.

The dress on the far left has a lovely square design starting at the bust going up towards the shoulder. I also love the simple waist-pleating on the skirt.

Some more basic shirt dresses and at $3.98 the price is much nicer. That would be $31 dollars today. I could definitely see buying the two on the left and perhaps the one in the middle for that price.