Lady Danna Retro & Vintage

With this new outfit, I show you an unusually shaped hat by “Gina Chapeus Modas”. I bought this hat two years ago in Portugal, through a Spanish online platform for collectors. Although, of course, calling it a platform for collectors is not entirely correct. Since the most part there are garbage or a modern mass market at very high prices. However, this hat was not very expensive for this place and together with a delivery cost me about 15 euros. Unfortunately, my experience with this seller was not the best. Because the seller saved its money on packaging the parcel, as if it hoped that I would not receive this hat or that I would receive it completely broken. The seller didn't even reply to my emails afterwards.  Fortunately, the hat was only slightly damaged during shipment, slightly wrinkled. I had to do its restoration. Searches for information about its producer, boutique “Gina Chapeus Modas”, did not give me much results. As I wrote before, this always has happened when we ...

This time I'm showing a romantic outfit in the style of the late 1940s - early 1950s. A gathered open neckline with “lowered” shoulders (especially in combination with a long skirt) always brings to mind the hot Spain and a fiery flower in pitch black hair of the legendary beauty Carmen, the heroine of the tragic opera of the same name written by the famous French composer, Georges Bizet. After all, it was from there, that it came to the world of fashion, giving it a "Carmen" blouse and a dress with a "Carmen" bodice. However, in fashion, as always, not everything is so clear or unambiguous, because some similar styles of blouses were often called "peasant" and were worn with alpine Dirndl skirts in folk style. One way or another, but similar blouses came into fashion in the second half of the 1940s. There are many fashion photographs from 1947-1949 showing girls posing in similar blouses, which they call "peasant" blouses.  Probably the dif...