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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 ...