1920s evening gowns

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It's been awhile since my last Great Hair Friday post. As I've been working a 1920s gown I figured today would be a good time to focus on hairstyles for that time period. The most well-known hair style of the roaring 20s was the short bob. Louise Brooks and Clara Bow bow helped popularize this style. Now, the question "to bob or not to bob?" I imagine was a rather personal one. Has anyone ever read Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald? You can read the story here. Have you ever…

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1920s Green Dress, Hamlet Costume, 1920s Evening Gowns, 1920s Gown, 1920s Evening Dress, Style Année 20, Fashion Timeline, Silk Evening Gown, Silk Evening Dress

This full-length apple green silk evening gown exemplifies elements of early 1920s fashion. It has the characteristic dropped waist and trains at each shoulder, reminiscent of medieval costume yet with its geometric shape and decorative motifs also distinctly ‘modern’. The thin shoulder straps and off-the-shoulder sleeves emphasise slender shoulders and arms while the lack of embellishment on the bodice and the strong vertical lines of the skirt and trains would have showcased the slender…

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Gods and Foolish Grandeur: A rocky descent - transitional hemlines, circa 1928-30 1920s Evening Gowns, 1920s Gown, 1920s Evening Dress, 1930 Art, 1920 Fashion, 1920's Fashion, Gilmore Girl, 30s Fashion, 20th Century Fashion

I rather love that brief but strange and potent period of fashion history when ladies' dresses were shifting their lines and shape from that of the Twenties into that of the Thirties. Even as the now-iconic look of the latter decade - the straight-edge, close-cropped, waistless Garçonne silhouette - was finally being universally accepted, waistlines began flirting with a woman's actual waist. And just as skirt lengths reached their greatest height yet - skimming or even floating above the…

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