Lady Danna Retro & Vintage

On March 27, 2023, my vintage blog turned 1 year old. Of course, I cannot boast of a million subscribers and a million publications, like many. Maybe because I don’t try to adapt to everyone, as many bloggers do, publishing dozens of copy-pastes of other people’s articles a day on hackneyed topics like cryptocurrency and programming.  The topics of my blog are specific and dedicated to what I like first of all - vintage, vintage fashion, fashion history, timeless beauty, rejection of modern consumption and protection of the planet. And I write articles myself and illustrate them with photographs of myself. But still, over the past year, I've managed to earn over 2700 subscribers on the Medium platform by publishing 57 articles. You can’t force yourself to constantly publish something on the blog (unless you are a bot), because in addition to this virtual space so beloved by modern inhabitants of the planet, there is a real world, with its own problems, illnesses, sorrows, work, hou...

This winter I decided to try outfits with maxi skirts and fantasies on the fashion of the 1910s. I have dreamed about this for a long time, because I love long skirts and fitted coats and richly decorated Vamp or femme fatale hats. Now about the company "Dixi-Coat/Teiniasu Oy", which made my coat. It turned out that this is a fairly well-known company and factory with information in the Finnish Wikipedia. According to the 1996 "Kansakunnan vaatettajat" ("The Nation's Clothiers") reference book, it was a subsidiary owned by "Turo" from Kuopio City, which was founded in Turku City in 1956.  At the beginning "Dixi-Coat/Teiniasu Oy" specialized in the production of jackets for children and young people. The idea of a factory for the production of youth jackets came from Sweden. The company started in an old carpentry shop with 35 employees. In the early years of its existence, Teiniasu Oy also operated a now defunct wool factory where ...