Sundazed (Netherlands) 60s, Punchcard Programming, Dutch Textile Innovation

Sundazed (Netherlands) 60s, Punchcard Programming, Dutch Textile Innovation SUNDAZED & OUTSIDE SOCIETY S.O.S. | sundazed.io/sos ...Chevron-striped panels converge with millimetric accuracy, using punchcard or early CAD logic to embed visual rhythm directly into the knit. The dress, a masterwork of postwar European machine-knit engineering, likely originates from a Dutch atelier active between the late 1960s and mid-1970s. While unbranded, its construction logic, textile programming, and structural language strongly indicate manufacture by a knitwear-specialist facility operating at the intersection of domestic fashion and industrial textile capability. The dress exemplifies a lineage of fully fashioned or circular-knit garments that emerged as European knitwear mills transitioned from utilitarian base layers to complex, visually coded outer garments, using punchcard-controlled and later digitized systems to manipulate yarn tension, pattern tiling, and dimensional surface relief.