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Hot summer outfit in style of 1959-1960s with real vintage swing dress & straw wide brim hat by “Käthe Hofer”

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Autumn has already came in many countries of the world, but not in Spain. For here the daily temperature continues to be above 30 degrees Celsius. Therefore, I continue to show outfits for a hot summer. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything about the "Finett" company that made my dress. The consonance of “Finett” with “Finetti” interferes.  But I can say that this dress is similar to the dresses of 1959-1960. Its fabric is very interesting. Despite the fact that it is ordinary cotton, the dress holds its shape.  Also, what appears to be a regular stripe print is actually part of a woven base. And the combination of a thin black stripe on a white background creates an illusion of color and from a distance the dress looks gray. But if I had no luck in finding information about “Finett”, then things are different with the hat manufacturer “Käthe Hofer”. This hat is similar to the hats of the mid-1930s, 1935 to be exact.  Probably this hat was made by less known milliner An...