Lady Danna Retro & Vintage

In this outfit, I show a Finnish skirt by the Finnish boutique studio "Punainen Rukki". The name "Punainen Rukki" means "Red Spinning Wheel", which is its trademark.  It was founded in the late 1960s by  textilemaker and designer  Kaisa Mäkelä in Helsinki. Finding out more about Kaisa Mäkelä is not possible, because the article about this woman is in the paid online version of the newspaper. However, I managed to find out that the years of her life were 1941-2007. Therefore, I will talk about Finnish machine knitting, which was once common in Finland, because the fabric of my skirt was machine-knitted from wool. At the end of the 19th century, along with traditional knitting needles, a new working tool came to Finnish crafts - a knitting machine. Therefore, the knitting process has become faster. At the same time, a new profession was born - mechanized knitters working at home. In 1889, the engineer Theodor Neovius founded a wholesale and retail shop in He...

I almost never wear pants for the reason that I don't like them. I do not consider them a convenient, practical and even more beautiful part of the wardrobe. In my opinion, the skirt is much more comfortable, more practical and more beautiful.  Another thing is culottes or palazzo trousers, which at different times in different countries and even in the same territory were called differently. For example: English - "bifurcated skirt", "divided skirt", "split skirts", "trouser-skirt", German "hosenrock", Italian - "gonna-culotte" and "gonna-pantaloni" and others. In France, the term was common - "jupe-culotte", less often - "jupe-pantalon". Be that as it may, this wardrobe item has all three of the qualities I have listed above. Something that I really enjoy wearing for traveling through the mountains and forests, cycling and other similar pastimes. Although in this article I will not show you ...