Lady Danna Retro & Vintage

This unusual hat comes from the famous Swedish  department  store "PUB" (not related to the English drinking establishment!), but named after the initials of its founder, Paul U. Bergström. In this department store in 1917, the Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin bought a suit, and in 1920, the future Hollywood star Greta Garbo started working as a seller. It can be said that  Greta Garbo  first became interested in cinema there, for while working at PUB, she starred in several commercials for a department store. For example, one of the clips, lasting no more than 14 seconds, filmed in 1920, shows a fifteen-year-old Greta Gustafsson (Garbo) in the form of a fashion model who tries on and shows a coat (here you can see the video ). Unfortunately, department store "PUB" no longer exists. It remains to wonder what path my hat has traveled before it came to me, from distant Stockholm to a vintage store in one of the sunny southern Spanish cities. It's funny ...

Someday Germany used to make not only traditional hunting hats, but also ladies' fashion hats just as well as France did, as in the case of my latest purchase, this very vintage lovely little hat from the German city of Paderborn.  I like its sunny color and I like these tiny flowers. It has something of the grace and elegance of the 19th century. But in general, this is a typical end of the 1930s, when hats with flowers were fashionable. For some reason, it is believed that hats with flowers were fashionable only in 1950 and 1960. But this is not so. Flowers on hats never went out of fashion, and in the late 1930s they were worn with might and main. I'm wearing a vintage dress from the French brand "Blue Marine Design Paris", with the company logo - a funny old car embroidered on the pocket.  This dress looks like a typical 1950s, so it was strange to find out that it is not younger than the 1970s, since "Blue Marine Design Paris" was founded only in 1972. ...