1920’s Hairstyles for Face Shapes

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1920’s Hairstyles for your face shape The 1920’s bob hairstyles craze, quickly brought home some hard truths. Your hair could determine how you looked, depending on your face shape. Alternately, your 1920’s hairstyle could determine your looks, depending on your face shape. Another browse through the 1926 personal style book “Making the most of your …

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Screen Debut of the Little Black Dress 1927

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In the movie It (1927), Hollywood’s biggest star Clara Bow turned the little black dress into an iconic staple wardrobe item for women. Clara Bow – the It girl, launches an iconic dress  It’s commonly accepted that the little black dress made it’s first appearance via Paris designer Coco Chanel in French Vogue 1926. It …

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Deauville – The Town where Fashion went on Holiday

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The Parisian Riviera in photographs – 1910 to 1940 F.Scott. Fitzgerald mentioned Deauville in “The Great Gatsby” as a place Tom Buchanan and Daisy visited on their honeymoon. It is the birthplace of Chanel’s career in fashion. It’s proximity to Paris made it the go to resort for French high society. In 1913 Coco Chanel …

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Threads of Time – Color Portal to 1920s Womens Style

1920s Fashion Recorded and Styled – A Photographic essay of Women’s fashion – 1920 to 1930 A project that is 60 years in the making began with renowned fashion photographer Neal Barr’s personal and lifelong obsession with women’s apparel from the Roaring 20s and his plan to stage and photograph, in meticulous detail and full …

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Downton Abbey hits the Roaring Twenties.

With potential bright young things like Lady Edith and Lady Rose MacClare , the fourth season of Downton Abbey promises to shake off the shackles of misery that left everyone bereft from the Christmas special and hit the Roaring Twenties in style. London in the 1920s had numerous infamous jazz clubs such as the Kit …

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1920’s Flappers – Anything Goes

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1920’s Flappers – Anything Goes – Cole Porter. Buy this fabulous 1920s flapper poster In 1934 – Cole Porter penned his masterpiece ” Anything goes” in tribute to the 1920s flapper era.When – anything went ! Young folks went dancing with old folks, corsets were abandoned, stockings were rolled, skirts rose everywhere, provocative dance steps …

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