1920 paris 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…

“1920s Fashion”

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This picture has been shared online with the description that it shows Marlene Dietrich as she is being detained by police for wearing trousers in public during her arrival in Paris in 1933. That…

The fashion aesthetics of the 1920s were grounded in women’s fight for greater freedoms. One of the major aspects where women sought to enjoy more autonomy was in the way they dressed. This led to the emergence of loose flapper dresses and more androgynous-style clothing. The fashion era was characterized by light and airy styles that combined convenience and comfort with liberation. As with every defining moment in fashion history, there were key people who made it possible.

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