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Northstar Vintage Webstore: 1970’s Rainbow Striped St. John Dress

Posted on | February 27, 2010 | No Comments

I’m becoming increasingly smitten with St. John knits, specifically vintage St. John knits.  Their modern stuff is a bit too “career” for me, but the earlier stuff, from the 1960’s and 1970’s is quite sexy, as is the case with this dress.

Santana yarn is amazing stuff – a wool/rayon combination that doesn’t wrinkle, stretch or sag.  Marie Gray, the co-founder of St John,  developed the santana yarn. She was told that it would not hold colors.  But it did, beautifully, which is perhaps why color is always such an important feature of the earlier pieces.  So, why do a black dress when you can make it a black dress with a rainbow in the middle?

Love this!  Please click on the image to see the listing.

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