Anything Goes - Celebrating the 20s

Billie Dove in day wear with a feather boa - one of the few feather boas of the 1920s that looks anything like the modern costume concept of what this 20s article of clothing looked like.

maudelynn:

Elinor Fair in cute lounging pajamas 

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retrowunderland:

Retro Snap…Flapper Fashion

Eaton’s department store, c.1927

retrowunderland:

Flapper Style…c.1920’s

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thecamphorchest:

Evening Coat, designed by Paul Poiret

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Flapper Joan Crawford is my favourite version of Joan - as F Scott Fitzgerald said, “…Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.”

Billie Dove in what looks to be a fabulous lamé gown

Billie Dove in top hat and tails. Every actress of the 20s and 30s seems to have done this look at some point - some better than others! Gloria Swanson liked to get in character and see if she could pass.

Claire Windsor cover of Motion Picture Classics, 4 September 1926