Yay - a great idea to build a database of labels!
So I dig out all my vintage (pre 1980s) carres, camera poised eagerly… and I find that not one single scarf still has the label. I can’t believe it.
As a poor substitute, here are a range of labels from a range of dates from mid 1990s to mid 2000s. I’m 100% sure of the date in each case. Most were acquired when in either the UK or the US - there may well be label differences depending on national labelling regulations which I suspect become more detailed in recent times.
No, I forgot about a very elderly Brides de Gala - if it is correct that this design was not reissued before 2015, then this is definitely a 1957 original - its fragile and supple enough to be that old.
It has just one small label. It is carefully sewn into the rolled hem, and looks to me that it was integral / original to the scarf:
hope i’m not to late… i recently got my hands on an astrology forever scarf, butr i have no idéa what year it’s from, however, the label looks like this.
Sorry I missed your photos of the care label. It appears to be a “C-label” and most likely was issued in 1988. The reference I used is Genevieve Fontan’s "Carres D’ Art E, page 16…Jeff
I ADORE this design! I have it in the colourway in your picture, and also in a hot pink fuscia mess of a colourway too. Wonderful craftsmanship in the original pietre dure items, wonderful craftsmanship by Hermes
I have scarves which I bought in. Paris in the sixties and they have no care labels and never did have. Perhaps before labelling things became obligatory.
Thank you all for your contributions! I took the time to put everything together, and the label timeline is now live on Scarf Sage:
It shows each label with its year, from the 1957 Brides de Gala tag to the 2008 Indian Dust label, with a close-up of every label and a link to each scarf in the catalog.
Two labels (Pierres d’Orient et d’Occident and Springs) are still undated. If you have the same label on a scarf you can date, or any other label with a known date, please share a photo here and I’ll add it to the page.
(although im cloueless to what c-label means)
