Malikini for Liberty House Dresses

I found a lovely pair of vintage Hawaiian dresses, the second such find in three days. The dress are both from Malikini for Liberty House.

The first dress is a red and white pull-over dress. The second is a navy blue and white dress with a back zipper. The zipper is a nylon one. Both dresses have the same style of Malikini for Liberty House labels and they were obviously owned by the same person.

Red Malikini for Liberty House dress.

Blue Malikini for Liberty House dress.

 The labels seem to be of a more modern design than other Malikini labels I've seen. The stylized purple, black, and orange "M" is much more modern than the palm tree and hibiscus images seen on older labels. Both dresses are 100% polyester. So the zipper style, label design, and fabric strongly indicate a date of the 1970s.

Malikini Sportswear was founded just after World War Two and was located at 746 Ilaniwai Street in Honolulu. They opened a retail women's clothing store in the Moanalua Shopping Center in 1964. Liberty House was a retailer that began in the mid-1800s. By the mid-1960s there were three or four Liberty House stores in Hawaii. They expanded to the mainland in the early 1970s but encountered financial difficulties by the end of the decade. Liberty House was eventually acquired by the early 1980s.