Lady Danna Retro & Vintage

Many consider turbans to be only soft cloths wound around the head in a special way. But in my collection, there is a really vintage unusual hat, whose shape is a typical turban. However, the hat is completely dense, with a frame that is covered with several layers of delicate thin silk in two colours. There is even a lining on the inside.  In its style, my hat is somewhat reminiscent of the 1942s hat presented in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . This piece of vintage hat art belongs to the American designer Sally Victor (1905–1977), who started her hat business back in 1927. This designer loved such extravagant and oriental designs, drawing inspiration from both modern art (like the artist Henri Matisse) and various cultures, both close to her - Native American tribes, and distant such as Japanese samurai armor.  Although she herself described her work rather modestly, as "designing pretty hats that make women look prettier." Thus, my hat can be dated to the late 1930s - e

It just so happened that the final design of the half hat did not come to me and my friend photographer Alexandrina Wasiliewa-Szylowska immediately. But now we are happy with this hat.  It turned out lightweight, airy, elegant, in the spirit of almost the beginning of the "New Look", the late 1940s and early 1950s.   This hat is again completely eco-friendly and sustainable, like our white knitted half hat (which I already showed in the article “Very hot autumn outfit in style of 1955 with eco-friendly handmade half hat”), as it is made from old materials that we gave not even a second, but multiple one, quite a worthy new life.   Inside, hat has a frame made from old wire found in the attic and a framework crochet from old cotton yarn.  Lining is made from an old tattered cream wild silk blouse.  Crochet framework is covered with ice blue silk from old second-hand blouse.  The hat is decorated with real vintage blue silk rose and silver toned metal with white and blu