Last week I found a Vintage Movie Date dress. ![Differences in the Movie Date dress (Mattel) and Cream Puff dress (Fab Lu), a good copy of the Movie Date 2 Barbie Movie Date dress](https://barbie.final-memory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/IMG_4337-300x200.jpg)
It might not sound very special but here’s the story why I write about the dress. In summer 2017 I got a Vintage dress (Barbie Vintage era 1959 – 1966). I thought I had bought the Movie Date dress but in reality I hadn’t. I needed several months to find out that my dress without any label was made by Fab Lu. It got the name Cream Puff. The design of the Cream Puff is very similar to the Movie Date. The only difference is in the processing of the seams, the wideness of the stripes and the colour of the stripes.
Cream Puff looks like this…
![Differences in the Movie Date dress (Mattel) and Cream Puff dress (Fab Lu), a good copy of the Movie Date 3 Fab Lu Cream Puff](https://barbie.final-memory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/IMG_4355-300x200.jpg)
and here you can see the difference of the seams… the Fab Lu seam is normal, not special but in comparison to this seam the Movie Date seam is very different but very Mattel-like. I have seen the Mattel seams in very different outfits but all in the same way done.
![Differences in the Movie Date dress (Mattel) and Cream Puff dress (Fab Lu), a good copy of the Movie Date 4 Fab Lu Cream Puff seam](https://barbie.final-memory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/IMG_4356-300x200.jpg)
![Differences in the Movie Date dress (Mattel) and Cream Puff dress (Fab Lu), a good copy of the Movie Date 5 Vintage Movie Date dress](https://barbie.final-memory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/IMG_4357-300x200.jpg)
At first sight and without both dresses it’s very hard to see the difference. That was my problem too. I hope I can help you with my information.