My mom died in 2009 - before she died she she told me about some fabric she saved from a dress she made for my sister (she was born in 1950). It was the Disney version of the 3 Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf - white fabric and the pigs and wolf were a pink/purple, so I believe she bought it about 1951 or 1952. She said she didn't have very much fabric left but she couldn't force herself to let it go. When I was cleaning out the house I found the fabric. My sister had passed away the year before my mother, her daughter (my niece) had twins a month after my mom passed away, so I used the fabric in a quilt for the twins. The fabric is still holding up in the quilt 7 years later.