What it feels like I should be wearing as Autumn draws on Down Under…
Anything Goes - Celebrating the 20s
17thday ofMayin the year2013
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Interpreting the Robe de Style….
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Truly fantastic 1920’s flapper girl and greyhounds powder compact by Stratton.
Found on www.sheryls-artdeco.com
(A wonderful website filled with such beautiful deco offerings.)
Lovely compact and yes, that is one of my favourite online Deco stores!
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The tricky cane flask, 1922. I want one.
I have a friend who absolutely adores vintage gadgetry (and who has one of the best vintage wardrobes I’ve ever seen) who has one of these.
(via queenkayla)
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On a friendly dare, I submitted a photo of myself in a 1920s dress & hat to the People.com “Show us How you Gatsby” photo contest and wound up featured first in an album that is linked on the main page. Surreal! Just, you know, hanging with the Kardashians! LOL….What a trip!
Because it is such a FABULOUS photo, and you look perfect in vintage 1920s.
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Trailer from the 1920 silent film, Within Our Gates, directed by Oscar Micheaux. The film portrays the hardships blacks faced in Jim Crow America. The subject matter was so controversial at the time, that the film was severely edited. Most prints were destroyed, and the film was considered lost for 70 years until a lone print was discovered in a Spanish archive. Within Our Gates is believed to be the earliest surviving film directed by an African-American filmmaker. The full version of the film is available online.
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Anonymous asked: You'll probably think this is a stupid question but how do you tell a 1920s everyday dress from an evening dress? All i ever seem to see in 20s period things is fancy beaded dresses.
There’s a good reason for that! Everyday wear is one of the hardest things to find…it was worn until it fell apart and wasn’t often saved. Expensive evening dresses, on the other hand, were worn far less frequently and often saved. I have plenty of 1920s beaded dresses, and very few examples of common “porch” or morning dresses. I have one sports dress, made explicity for excercising in.
Embroidery and beadwork do appear on daywear, but usually much simpler, and generally not incorporating the “sparklies” like sequins or glass beads.
It can be difficult sometimes to tell the difference between, say, an afternoon dress and a dinner dress - while evening dress was made of finer materials, you could still find the more formal day dresses made out of chiffons, velvets etc. Often it comes down to a combination of style and materials used - in this instance, the combination of chiffon, gold overlace and mink trim and the cut of the gown (e.g. sleeveless with thin straps on the underbodice) all come together to identify it as c.1922 evening wear…I’ve seen similar gowns illustrated.
As always, it takes looking at a lot of primary resources - everything from cheap mailorder catalogues to high end fashion magazines - to get a feel for what was worn, and when it was worn.
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“Do you wear your vintage on the plane when you travel?”
“Don’t be silly…I only wear my cloches!”
Which, by the way, is highly entertaining for custom’s officers.
16thday ofMayin the year2013
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Decofabulous, my darlings….Decofabulous.
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1920s meets 1930s - with my friend Claire at the Napier Art Deco weekend Gatsby Picnic.
I’ve only worn this dress once (and it’s a cheat - obviously it’s an evening dress, and I styled it down). Must wear it again!
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A celebration of all that's beautiful, strange and exciting about the 1920s, with a few excursions into the teens and 30s.
