Betty Bone apparently didn't believe in disappearing into the wallpaper.
“Dazzling fashions that make men weak...” promised one of her tiny newspaper advertisements. Another offered “delectable pastel clouds of diaphanous glamour.” Still another invited Spokane women to “wear those designer labels that Movie stars wear — GLAMOUR GALORE.”
After looking through Betty Bone advertisements from the 1960s and 70s, I began to understand the woman whose name is written in bright pink inside this dress.
Betty had started somewhere quite different. She became Washington state's first licensed female dispensing optician, eventually opening her own optical shop in Spokane's Davenport Hotel in 1961. But fashion apparently beckoned. The optical shop grew into Betty Bone Boutique, and Betty built a career around helping women find clothes that made them feel extraordinary.
And she seems to have meant it when she said one of a kind, that's you.
Now one of Betty's wonderfully noticeable dresses gets to do one more thing for Spokane →See Betty Bone’s dress and all current Vintage for Spokane offerings