Immortalized in movies and magazine covers, young women’s fashion of the 1920s was both a trend and social statement, a breaking-off from the rigid Victorian way of life. These young, rebellious, middle-class women, labeled ‘flappers’ by older generations, did away with the corset and donned slinky knee-length dresses, which exposed their legs and arms. The hairstyle of the decade was a chin-length bob, of with several popular variations.
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Berlin, 1928 |
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Royal Ascot, ca. 1920s |
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Girls in Knickers beside automobile, 1926. |
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Photo booth, Paris, 1920 |
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Tamara de Lempicka, Paris 1929. Photo by Dora Kallmus. |
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Vogue, 1928 |
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New York City, ca. 1920s |
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“Clothes and the Car at the Theatre”, photo by Cecil Beaton for Vogue, 1927. |
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New York City, ca. 1920s |
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Berlin, ca. 1920s |
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1920's cocktails |
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1920s |
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Lee Miller, 1929. Muse, artist, beauty, model, Vogue collaborator and photographer in her own right. |
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Cafe du Dome, Paris 1928. Photo by André Kertész. |
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1920s |
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1920s travelers |
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Interior of a railway carriage, showing several items of New Zealand Railways picnic equipment, ca. 1920s. |