1929 fashion

I rather love that brief but strange and potent period of fashion history when ladies' dresses were shifting their lines and shape from that of the Twenties into that of the Thirties. Even as the now-iconic look of the latter decade - the straight-edge, close-cropped, waistless Garçonne silhouette - was finally being universally accepted, waistlines began flirting with a woman's actual waist. And just as skirt lengths reached their greatest height yet - skimming or even floating above the…

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The roaring 20’s! Fashion changed so very much during this decade! First things first. Check out this fun video! Staying true to the way I do things, I had this entire post typed out. It took…

A page from the 1926 Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog, full of flapper-inspired fashions. Via ArtDecoBlog.blogspot.com

Women's and men's Fashion in 1929 is a fascinating year. For the most part fashion from the mid 1920s continued one more year before drastically changing in 1930-1931. Women's hemlines were getting longer but still the drop waist loose silhouette with more feminine flounces, ruffles, scarf coats and bows. On the opposite side were even

The High Point of street photography started in the 1920s, bolstered by the introduction of the Leica camera. Photographers let themselves be carried away by the flux of the metropolis with its par…

This is how the December 1929 issue of McCall’s magazine chooses to describe the elegant fashions that are highlighted for this season. The descriptions I