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Archive of 2022-2023: Very warm winter outfit in mixed styles of the end of 19th century, the 1930s & 1940s with vintage culottes

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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 ...

Archive of 2022–2023: Cool winter outfit in style of the Edwardian Era with real vintage mink fur duo: toque hat & stole neckpiece

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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...