15 Vintage Photos Show Beautiful Fashion of the 1920s

The most stunning thing you will notice about 1920s fashion is the shape of the silhouette. It is strikingly straight and flat. While most fashions accentuate the figure in some way or another, it almost seemed like, at times, any shape other than straight was a big no-no. This straight shape is a very distinct element of 1920s style.

Silent film actress Thalia Barbarova, c. 1920s.

Actress Estelle Taylor models perfect Marcel waves, c. 1920s.

Photographed by Edward Steichen, 1928.

Actress Fay Way wearing a cloche hat, c. 1920s.

Myrna Loy, c. 1920s.

Silent film actress Mary Astor posing in a fun frock, c. 1920s.

Kay Francis photographed in 1928.

Actress Lupe Velez, c. 1920s.

Madeleine Vionnet in a Norman Hartnell dress, c. 1920s.

Photographed by Edward Steichen, 1925.

Fashion in Paris, 1928.

Flapper girl, c. 1920s.

Actress Alice Joyce, 1926.

Actress Dolores del Rio photographed by Edward Steichen, 1929.

Actress Louise Brooks in fur, c. 1920s.