#20s style

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Say no more!

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Marmon (1928)

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One Dress a Day Challenge

July: Green Redux (+ Blue Redux)

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (s3e1, "Death Defying Feats") / Essie Davis as Phryne Fisher

This mint-green dress has a very interesting construction: it is called a tabard dress, with sleeve-frills attached by ropes of beads, worn over a base dress of the same material as the "sleeves." When it was exhibited in 2015, it was described as "1920’s green silk net with luminescent sequins and bugle beads"--which sounds like it may be a vintage piece.

This episode is quite the source for Miss Fisher costumes, as it also included Dot's orange dress and Phryne's midnight blue dress with the lace overlay. I'm also including a nice shot of the crescent-shaped hairpiece--from the front, as the side shot is out of focus.

[jeanharlowshair]

Screenland Magazine, July 1929.

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Anna Pavlova and her pet swan, Jack, at Pavlova's Ivy House in London, England. August 1927.

Photographed by Lafayette.

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Arrow Collars (1923)

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Art Gout Beaute, January 1924

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African-American beauty contest at the Park Ridge country club for colored people, Los Angeles, 1928 🖤🖤🖤🖤

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Schauspielhaus (Theater) in Berlin, 1925 - via x

[drum-cu-naluci]

under spring's winter

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[coolvintagecars]

Peugeot (1929)

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One Dress a Day Challenge

February: Coeli's Monochrome Picks

Forbidden Paradise / Pola Negri as Catherine (the Czarina)

As befits royalty, Catherine wears a succession of sumptuous gowns in this film. The top photo shows her in a sleek gown with extravagant sleeves, a furry muff, and a crown-and-veil combo that made me think it was a wedding dress at first.

The ermine-trimmed gown in the middle photo is probably the most lavish of the lot. The skirt looks like it's covered in tiny pearl necklaces! The cut is a robe de style, with visible panniers supporting the skirt.

Finally, the bottom photo shows Her Majesty in a rather gothy gown with a full skirt. Looks like it might be made of velvet.

This is one of Ernst Lubitsch's early silent films--you can see him with Pola Negri in the bottom photo. The middle picture shows Negri with Adolphe Menjou as the Chancellor. This movie is available on YouTube, but unfortunately, the subtitles are only in Czech.

[jeanharlowshair]

Photoplay Magazine, July 1928.

[eyesfullofmoon]

"I want to be loved"

Anonymous photographer, 1926.

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RAVENCLAW LOOKBOOK

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