Victorian dress copy or ?

I got this last week, still can't find any info about it. Does not have a makers label, in some areas it looks to have been resewn (repaired) . Has an Ideal zipper pull but could have been added later or maybe dress was made around 1940.
It is a small dress, possibly for a teen or small woman.
Can anybody tell me what they think this dress was made for and what era ?

Thank You

Billy D.

 

Billy, I wonder if it's a costume of some sort. It reminds me of a dress I had to wear in a play in 5th grade (in the mid-1960's).

 

Period pastiche. Suspect it was a costume. From the colorway, 1970s.

Debora

 

Thank You, I had that feeling...

 

1970's, dang it, I was hoping 40's.

 

The zipper looks original. Those nylon zippers replaced metal zippers in the late 1960s. Orange screams 1970s.

Debora

 

That zipper definitely dates it to the late 60s or later.

 

Ok, Thanks.