Fashion 1920s womens

Have you heard? There’s a new swell in town named Gatsby, and he’s bringing flapper flair back into fashion. Baz Luhrmann’s latest cinematic spectac...

Go to any office, coffee shop, or mall today, and you will see women lugging around bags that rival the size of carry-on luggage. A peek inside might reveal a cell phone, car keys, wallet, make up, receipts, energy bars, and a whole host of other gadgets and paraphernalia that are all deemed to be

________________ Yola Letellier: Yola Letellier served as the model for the character Gigi in the novel of the same name by the French writer Colette. A friend of Pamela Hicks, the youngest daughter of Earl Mountbatten, Hicks wrote that her father had met a “young, extremely attractive, boyish-looking girl with cropped hair and a little snub nose – a French ‘gamine’. Yola did not live with us but would visit frequently, bringing us charming gifts.” Mountbatten had married Edwina Ashley in…

From beaded gowns to (gasp!) trousers.

Louise Brooks wearing Chanel gown

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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…