20s 30s fashion

Vintage Hollywood Classics

In the 1930's fur was very popular in fashion- so were sequins and a long line - and the influence of movie stars on fashion began to grow. Perhaps the glamor was a needed relief from the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Or perhaps the popularity of that new medium "the talkies" and the ability to make more complex movies, such as musicals, made dressing up more glamorous and fun. The beautiful gowns of the 1930's are still a fashion influence today on the Red Carpet, but some things like…

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.

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Let's party like it's the Roaring Twenties!!!

Character portrait inspired by 1920's aesthetic. Shot in studio, background added in Photoshop. Lit with a single Godox AD400 Pro/120cm octabox.

Dear readers, I have become obsessed with Cloche hats. Today I am honoring the classic bell shaped hat known as the cloche hat. These hats were wildly popular with the young flapper girls of the 1920s, because they allowed women to tuck their hair up into the hair to give the appearance of having short hair. Short hair not becoming popular until the middle part of the decade. Like many of the popular trademarks of 1920s fashion, the cloche was invented in France by the famous Parisian…