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Archive of 2022-2023: Warm winter outfit in mixed styles of the Titanic Era & early 1930s with real vintage jacket by "Salonne"

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This is the second time I'm demonstrating an outfit in the style of the 1910s. This style of outfit could also be seen on ladies walked along the streets of the 1930s.  I was inspired by a combination of a narrow long skirt, a fitted jacket with a belt and a large wide-brimmed hat, which I saw in one series about detectives Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. The series depicted the 1930s.  While it is widely believed that only small, shifted hats were worn during this period, the show costumers were of the opinion that this was not the case.  Indeed, if you look at old photographs of those times, you can also find wide-brimmed hats. But it still seemed to me that in the outfit from the series there was something from the 1910s and from the 1930s.  For example, there the hat was without flowers and there was only a ribbon from the decorations. The laconicism gave the 1910s style hat a 1930s style. My hat is far from concise, because it is very richly decorated with flowers, so it looks

Archive of 2022-2023: Cool winter outfit in style of the 1915-1916 with real vintage coat by "Dixi-Coat/Teiniasu Oy"

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This winter I decided to try outfits with maxi skirts and fantasies on the fashion of the 1910s. I have dreamed about this for a long time, because I love long skirts and fitted coats and richly decorated Vamp or femme fatale hats. Now about the company "Dixi-Coat/Teiniasu Oy", which made my coat. It turned out that this is a fairly well-known company and factory with information in the Finnish Wikipedia. According to the 1996 "Kansakunnan vaatettajat" ("The Nation's Clothiers") reference book, it was a subsidiary owned by "Turo" from Kuopio City, which was founded in Turku City in 1956.  At the beginning "Dixi-Coat/Teiniasu Oy" specialized in the production of jackets for children and young people. The idea of a factory for the production of youth jackets came from Sweden. The company started in an old carpentry shop with 35 employees. In the early years of its existence, Teiniasu Oy also operated a now defunct wool factory where