Lady Danna Retro & Vintage

It was very difficult to find any information about the “Margrit Graf” brand of my dark gray dress. Unfortunately, the Internet knows a lot about American clothing manufacturers, but from Europe only knows about major masters such as Christian Dior, Gabrielle Chanel, etc.  Meanwhile, there were other people who made their considerable contribution to local fashion, who created things not in on such a large scale and therefore every piece of clothing that has survived, in my opinion, should be valued no less than a dress from Dior.  After all, this is a part of the history of the country, the city, and the World. Because when you read the history of vintage fashion and everywhere you see continuous references to France and Paris, America and New York, a natural question creeps in, was there really nothing in other countries and cities at that time? Did people go naked there? Of course it was not. Of course they didn't. Therefore, for me, finding clothes from some small local Eu...

This unusual hat comes from the famous Swedish  department  store "PUB" (not related to the English drinking establishment!), but named after the initials of its founder, Paul U. Bergström. In this department store in 1917, the Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin bought a suit, and in 1920, the future Hollywood star Greta Garbo started working as a seller. It can be said that  Greta Garbo  first became interested in cinema there, for while working at PUB, she starred in several commercials for a department store. For example, one of the clips, lasting no more than 14 seconds, filmed in 1920, shows a fifteen-year-old Greta Gustafsson (Garbo) in the form of a fashion model who tries on and shows a coat (here you can see the video ). Unfortunately, department store "PUB" no longer exists. It remains to wonder what path my hat has traveled before it came to me, from distant Stockholm to a vintage store in one of the sunny southern Spanish cities. It's funny ...