Lady Danna Retro & Vintage

This vintage dress is very beautiful.  I like the print of old and vintage fabrics.  Prints of recent years leaves a lot to be desired. They are faded, blurred and dotted in structure, in a word, "digital" printing.  Unfortunately, digital printing has completely destroyed any alternative and if you look at modern blouses, dresses, bags and other things, you will see that this is digital printing and that this print is very different even from the one that was back in the beginning of this century. Perhaps for someone it is the pearl of creation, but not for me. Before, the print was different - clear and bright, in my opinion, perfection itself. When I bought this dress in a vintage store, I was attracted by its bright fabric and beautiful cut.  Later at home I found out that it was also silk! This dress, typical of the early 1960s, again has something from the Biedermeier era, perhaps sleeves and collar. This flower bud hat is reminiscent of elves and flower fairie...

It seems to me that this hat is something in the style of Gabrielle Chanel's favorite model - Marie-Hélène Arnaud.  In particular, she wore something similar in the first film from the French trilogy "Fantômas" directed by André Henri Hunebelle.  Probably many people, who watched this film, liked the uninhibited, hot and very free in clothes (at that time period) blonde Helen, the bride of the protagonist, performed by Mylene Demongeot. But my childhood idol has been the cold, proud, elegant and mysterious Lady Beltham, played by Marie-Hélène Arnaud.  In spite of negligible screen time and none of a single line, she was incomparable!  With what dignity she wears Chanel-style outfits and a hat similar to mine, probably Chanel-style too!  It seems to me that precisely because of the absence of Marie-Hélène Arnaud, subsequent films are no longer so interesting. In any case, I think Marie-Hélène Arnaud could very well have worn this my outfit, which also has a bit o...