Lady Danna Retro & Vintage

I apologize for not posting on my blog for too long. It seems that the prolonged heat has begun to adversely affect my health. Hence the delay. In this outfit, I show off a hat that my photographer friend Alexandrina Wasiliewa-Szylowska and I redecorated.  It was a really vintage pink straw little pillbox hat from the 1950s-1960s. However, its decorations, if any existed, have not survived to this day.  But we took vintage paper roses and vintage voile décor and redecorated it. It turned out, as it seems to me, very refined and gentle.  This hat, among more than 20 others, I managed to buy last spring from a French woman who lived in a resort town in Andalusia and kept her own shop.  She was returning to France and urgently selling her collection of vintage hats.  It was a very lucky purchase for me, and I regret that such cases are rare.   I pair this little pillbox hat with a silk dress from a modern Finnish brand that I bought on sale in a vintage ...

For some reason, the history of costume and brands of the 20th century is practically not described in Europe, with the exception of very few famous fashion designers.  Moreover, I have a suspicion that this exception is only for the sole reason that these fashion designers were famous in America.   Therefore, a lot is known about American vintage brands, even about those that produced cheap items for mass market.  And nothing is known about the European ones, even if they produced expensive Haute Couture items.  If you are very lucky, you can find a mention in a newspaper or magazine of those times, find an advertisement or a fashion photo where a model wears clothes of this brand, or find such pieces on second-hand sale or in a museum.  With less luck, you can find a short mention in some trade or address directory and thus determine, if not the date of the brand, then at least the time when it existed. But that's usually where it ends. Why is that? Mayb...