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

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 more like the 1910s! Far from conciseness is my skirt, once hand-sewn by someone, of an unusual cut.

This hat was made by my friend, photographer Alexandrina Wasiliewa-Szylowska, and me - completely handmade, eco-friendly and sustainable. The flowers are crocheted from cotton threads on wire. The materials are vintage and also eco-friendly. Nothing is glued on the hat, as modern hat makers like to do, everything is sewn on.

The flowers were deliberately made without leaves, so as not to create a strong contrast in color, as I wanted the shades to be muted - vintage - cream, white and yellow. The green color would bring a strong imbalance to the overall look of the hat, I think.

I once wove a handbag using the macramé technique, and my friend Alexandrina Wasiliewa-Szylowska helped me with sewing parts together and sewing on the lining, because sewing, unfortunately, is not my strong point.

Now about "Salonne", the manufacturer of my jacket, which, like the manufacturer of my coat in the previous article, is from Finland!

I was not able to trace the beginning of the Finnish women's clothing brand "Salonne". However, on Finnish websites I found information that in Salo, a small Finnish town in the 1980s there was a factory / sewing workshop for women's clothing called "Salonne". But later with "Salonne" happened the same thing as with many other Finnish companies. The crisis of the 1990s ruined it as many other companies and industries.

According to some rumors, it was not only a factory/sewing workshop, but also a clothing store. Moreover, back in the 1980s they had many stores, but by the early 1990s, only one remained. 

The sewing workshop/factory was located at the beginning of Tehdaskatu street, opposite the city hall. The building has survived to this day. There was a legal aid office after the closure of the workshop / factory. However, there is no public information what is located there now. The last clothing store of the company was on the corner of the bridge, where the rock and roll club with the English name is now.

First, the sewing workshop/factory was closed, and a few years later the store was closed, as well.

That's all I was able to find. Thus, another very sad story of contemporary realism.

But back to the jacket.
My jacket with its cut and unusual buttons is a typical example of clothing from the late 1940s. Already not very square shoulders, less masculine, more feminine. I saw a jacket in a similar style presented by a well-known vintage blogger. She dates it to the same period as me.

In addition, there are many clothes by "Salonne" from the 1950s-1960s for sale in various online stores. The composition was never indicated in Finnish clothing from early production, that is, until about the 1960s, as on my jacket.

I am wearing:

• Real vintage cream with green and pink checker pure wool jacket by “Salonne”, Salo, made in Finland, about late 1940s-1950s
• (partly seen) Real vintage cream pure wool long sleeve button down blouse with top hat and magic wand embroidery and rhinestones by “Hämmerle Creation”, Steinebach (Dornbirn), made in Austria, about 1970s-1980s
• Real vintage handmade cream pure wool maxi straight skirt with front asymmetrical vertical ruffle, about 1970s-1980s
• Eco-friendly handmade from vintage materials cream pure wool big hat with asymmetrical wide brim and two crochet cream/white/yellow cotton on wire orchids and white band décor by Alexandrina Wasiliewa-Szylowska, idea by Dannais dde Daneann, autumn of 2022
• White leather belt by “St. Michael”, made in UK, late 1980s-1990s
• Handmade eco-friendly cream/white cotton macramé handbag by Dannais dde Daneann & Alexandrina Wasiliewa-Szylowska, spring of 2018
• Real vintage white peccary leather driving gloves, about late 1960s
• Beige nylon tights, circa 2010s-2020s
• Light brown suede low heel lace-up ankle boots with metallic decoration, 2010-2020s, made in Spain

I think, I ended up with a romantic outfit in mixed styles - Titanic Era ("Boarding Suit" of Rose DeWitt Bukater from James Cameron's film "Titanic"), which was almost entirely based on an outfit from a French fashion magazine in 1912, and early 1930s years. 

For the early 1910s, my skirt length is too short, but for the early 1930s, just right. However, I think that some brave girl from the Titanic era could well have worn a shorter skirt...

As fashion stereotypes about those times often turn out to be wrong. For example, even the same women of the "Pre-Raphaelites" had their own fashion.

What do you think? Write your thoughts in the comments, I would be very interested to hear your opinion!