Lady Danna Retro & Vintage

How wonderful are the light and especially all shades of cream-colored hats! But, unfortunately, most of them, if they are vintage, they reach our days, soiled and stained. However, that is not the case with this 1930s one, made of soft and tender but dense ecru silk. The history of my acquisition of this hat is curious. When I first visited Spain some years ago, this hat was already on sale in the local vintage shop. Because I was going through a life crisis, I had a different style and therefore I did not buy it. Later, when I settled in this small town, I visited this vintage shop for several years and the hat had still been sold there. But I was not yet ready to return to the classic feminine style.  But one day the time has come and my style and desire to collect real and very vintage items have finally required me to start collecting such hats also.  The year before last, in my small town, for some reason, there were almost no vintage hats on sale. So I decided to pay at...

Unfortunately, most vintage clothes not only missed or lost branded labels, but it was not even known who were the people sewed them.  This because many of them were really good craftsmen and deserve to be known but unfortunately life took a different course.  Every time I find or wear another unnamed masterpiece, I admire and thank these unknown people.  What good master-hands they were! In truth, they had skillful fingers.  After all, creators are not only painters, sculptors, poets and writers, but also tailors and hatters (milliners). So it is with this dress on the presented photos.   This is a real vintage item from the mid 1960s, circa 1965-1966 to be exact, in silk with the classic abstract print you can see on some men's ties.  With a belt, the dress becomes something like a tunic.  It was ideal to combine the dress with a Bretonne hat, especially since this style of hat was just popular in those days.  Bretonne hats have been wo...