30s women

“choose your favorite fashion era!”

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When World War One ended in 1918, people were obviously happy. So happy in fact that their collective euphoria ultimately influenced the fashion of the time. The era came to be defined by the emergence of vintage fashion, and as you can see from these pictures, it still looks awesome over 90 years later.

I absolutely love 1930s fashion. At first I thought it would never look good on my short and curvy frame because all the fashion images from the decade feature very tall and narrow silhouettes (the hand-drawn images were not realistically proportionate in the least). After giving a few 30s outfits a try, especially mixing separates,

Marlene Dietrich in the 30's dressed in a suit, from a site disusing the female dandy

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The perfect 1938 figure must have curves, but it differs from the perfect figure of past decades in relationship of curves to straight lines.