Lady Danna Retro & Vintage

I got really tired of the 1960s style outfits. But finally I got the 1940s.  It just so happened that I wore this dress for two photo shoots. Therefore, I had the opportunity to show how it can look different, but at the same time in the spirit of almost the same period. This time I'm demonstrating the first option.  This vintage dress in thick, colorful cotton can be from either the middle of 1940s or the middle of 1960s.  I decided to combine it with various vintage and not quite vintage jewelry that I bought over the years in different places (secondhand and vintage stores, flea markets and shops) and even in different countries. But the final touch was real vintage - handbag and horsehair / nylon bowler hat. But what is a bowler hat? It's funny, but this headdress was invented for foresters! The first bowler was created in 1849 in London by Thomas and William Bowler, based on a sketch by James and George Locke.  A client (commonly believed to be Edward Coke, a Br...

It just so happened that the final design of the half hat did not come to me and my friend photographer Alexandrina Wasiliewa-Szylowska immediately. But now we are happy with this hat.  It turned out lightweight, airy, elegant, in the spirit of almost the beginning of the "New Look", the late 1940s and early 1950s.   This hat is again completely eco-friendly and sustainable, like our white knitted half hat (which I already showed in the article “Very hot autumn outfit in style of 1955 with eco-friendly handmade half hat”), as it is made from old materials that we gave not even a second, but multiple one, quite a worthy new life.   Inside, hat has a frame made from old wire found in the attic and a framework crochet from old cotton yarn.  Lining is made from an old tattered cream wild silk blouse.  Crochet framework is covered with ice blue silk from old second-hand blouse.  The hat is decorated with real vintage blue silk rose and silver toned metal...