#1920s Fashion

[dollsinvogue]

C.A. Cupid and her 1920s inspirations 💌🏹

@the-ghost-rat and I were having a conversation and he told me that someone tried to tell him that Cupid wasn’t 1920s inspired…so I took that personally and said I will analyze her doll and compare it to 1920s fashion

if anyone who is particularly knowledgeable about this era of fashion and has some corrections to make please inform me!

[coolvintagecars]

Mercedes (1920)

[historical-fashion-polls]

submitted by @jumplittle 💙🩶

[achronalart]

FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.

It was an eye-popping magenta purple

HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...

...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.

(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).

They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.

Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.

[laurenillustrated]

I started drawing the Ever After High girls in random historical fashion eras… why? I have no idea

Raven Queen in 1890s, Apple White in Italian Renaissance.

Briar Beauty in 1920s, Madeline Hatter in 1880s

No particularly reason for the eras, just the vibe I get from the characters and their designs!

[cyclesofmystery]

1926: “This girl has all of [the] trends and she’s not loath to wear them at once: bell earrings, a dog collar worn as a necklace, a large beauty spot on her cheek, an ivory cigarette holder, a design to cover the vaccination mark on her arm, heavy bracelets, an anklet, a photo of a boyfriend on her stocking, an anklet watch, fancy garters worn below the knee and a mirror fastened to her wrist.”

Waiting for wristwatch anklets to make a comeback

[dark-longings]

Pola Negri. The Way of Lost Souls, 1929.

[fleursscaptives]

"a modern flapper in an old fashioned gown" by arthur kales, 1923

[frostedmagnolias]

Beaded black evening dress and cape

c. 1922

Museum of Vancouver

[daguerreotyping]

Postcard of a very refined young man reading a letter with the precise degree of drama appropriate to the task, c. 1920s

[inthedarktrees]

Lillian Gish as "Letty” in The Wind, 1927

[wh0-is-lily]

1920's Lingerie ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚♥

[aereenity]

RIP Shadowheart. You would've loved 1920s fashion

[historical-fashion-polls]

for the purposes of this poll we're focusing on the three figures on the right

submitted by @wordmage-girl 💚❤️💛

[lackadaisycats]

Some insight into the designs and fashion of the 20s would be so cool, especially since it's kinda hard these days to sift through just costume listing :'0

Yeah, sadly, the usefulness of a Google search is greatly diminished these days. You can still find articles written by actual human beings and genuine historical garments, but you have to wade through a lot of junky costumes and AI bullshit to get there. I can't possibly fully explain 1920s fashion here, though. It's a broad enough topic to write a sizable book about...which is why people have written many books about it. Check out some books. There are things you can get pretty cheap from resellers, everything from academic screeds about the politics behind the fashion trends of the time, to clothing catalogue compilations from the 20s, to giant coffee table books full of glorious photos.

Here's a PDF version of one of those clothing catalog collections. There's an entire preface about 1920s fashion in general too.

There are some pretty well made blogs about the topic out there as well. Vintage Dancer is one of them. The front of the site is unfortunately kind of cluttered with ads for costume apparel and modern clothing inspired by the 20s, but scroll past that to the historical bits and you'll find pertinent things.

There are some great fashion YouTubers too, like Karolina Zebrowska. Although she's not focused heavily on 1920s fashion, she talks a lot about early 20th century fashion in general. She also talks a lot about the historical context of those fashions.

Also, try online museum displays. The Met Museum has a searchable collection, for instance. Look up 1920s fashion, 1920s dresses, 1920s suits, etc.

Cameras were popular and accessible in the 1920s. Look at pictures of what people actually wore. You can find these images in free government photo archives, or licensing libraries like Getty Images (you don't have to license anything to look at it). And there's always Shorpy. Poor old, underappreciated Shorpy. Their archive is searchable.

[honehonn3honey]

Save a person in trouble, please kiss an frog Prince Todoroki! @andypantsx3