vintage treasure

As you know my favorite thrift store haunt is the Wildlife Thrift store on Granville. Yesterday I found a vintage Merimekko skirt for $5! I'm having a difficult time pin pointing the date of the skirt as they used a lot of black and white Op-art inspired prints in the 1960's. It's abvioulsy a USA import as the fabric tag is in English although faded so I can't read it. It has the standout signature bold print in black and white, with a interesting tag line around the hem that reads "Marimekko OY 1959 Suomi-Finland 100% Co". It needs a good cleaning but a super cute piece of clothing history.

Marimekko Corporation is a leading Finnish textile and clothing design company that was established in 1951. The company designs, manufactures and markets high-quality clothing, interior decoration textiles, bags and other accessories under the Marimekko brand, both in Finland and abroad. Marimekko as a fashion brand was made famous by Jacqueline Kennedy in the 1960's. It fell out of fashion in the 80's and early 90's as it went through some turbulent financial woes.

Marimekko has recently come back into favour as it has collaborated with H&M to launch an exciting spring and summer line it stores now. Can't wait to sport my vintage Marimekko. It's been fun researching this piece!