Lady Danna Retro & Vintage

How wonderful are the light and especially all shades of cream-colored hats! But, unfortunately, most of them, if they are vintage, they reach our days, soiled and stained. However, that is not the case with this 1930s one, made of soft and tender but dense ecru silk. The history of my acquisition of this hat is curious. When I first visited Spain some years ago, this hat was already on sale in the local vintage shop. Because I was going through a life crisis, I had a different style and therefore I did not buy it. Later, when I settled in this small town, I visited this vintage shop for several years and the hat had still been sold there. But I was not yet ready to return to the classic feminine style.  But one day the time has come and my style and desire to collect real and very vintage items have finally required me to start collecting such hats also.  The year before last, in my small town, for some reason, there were almost no vintage hats on sale. So I decided to pay at...

This was the very first summer look, I wore. When, do you think? In the second half of February! However, spring is the best. What a pity that this year most of the spring was overshadowed by weather anomalies and Saharian “Calima”. This outfit makes me think of the distant and cool summer of the 1930s, in a northern resort. It seems that a little more and I will meet Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple... I wear jacket by French brand "Fouks". As always, I tried to find out something about it. At one time, this brand was famous and its models were placed in famous fashion magazines. Coat by "Fouks" was published in: Vogue Paris, October 1958. Coat by Armand Fouks on page 60 in Queen, December 1964. Also in Jeanloup Sieff: 40 Years of Photography, Taschen, Cologne, 1996, p. 73 (variante) and "Appearances: Fashion Photography Since 1945" by Martin Harrison, 1991. Various wool garments from 1974 by "Armand Fouks" were given as an example of period c...