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Monday, February 9, 2015
Childrens Clothes in the 1920's
Children typically just dressed like miniature adults. Girls wore short dresses and boys wore cute little sailor suits. What was usually very restricting for girls, dresses were now very lose and made of cotton for comfort and children's needs in mind for once. When it was chilly out, a light cardigan was worn over the dress. The shoes were now made of canvas instead of the hard Victorian boots they usually wore. In the winter young girls wore heavy sailor suits with long underwear underneath to keep them warm. Instead of wearing their hair long like they used too, they kept it very short. Boys wore knee length trousers year round. Eventually the shorts got a lot shorter. In summer they paired these shorts with knee socks and canvas shoes or sandals. For school they wore suits and ties but these outfits weren't as restrictive before. All in all childrens clothes became a lot less restrictive and more for the children to actually be able to play.
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Sunday, February 8, 2015
What's in? It's the 1920s
What’s in? Women didn't really shop specifically at one store but if there was somewhere where you could buy shorts skirt and show more skin they were all for it. In the 20s women began to want to show more skin. They wanted their arms to be able to show and also wanted there legs to be visible. With their legs and arms being ‘free’ and visible it made it easier for them to dance. Dancing was what everything was about back then. Showing arms didn't cause to much of a fuss but it wasn’t very well liked either. People thought women should be kept completely covered up. If you thought people were crazy about a little arm showing then you better prepare yourself for how ridiculous people were over women showing their knees. Women couldn't dance with it all covered, it made it hard to move around. With clothing being made shorter and smaller it made women feel more free by being able to ‘breath’. Now days we wear tank tops and short shorts everyday of summer and no one gets questioned. The styles truly have changed since the 1920s.
~ Daisy Buchanan
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Stockings in the 1920s
In the 1920s women wore all different kinds of what we call tights but what they refer to as stockings. Women would wear stockings under dresses of shorter pants. They would wear tan colored ones with black seams during the day. Then for the evenings they would wear light pastel or sheer colored tights under their dresses. Today we wear a lot of black and darker colored tights if we wear them at all. A lot of times we don’t wear tights. In todays world woman's legs are shown a lot more. If we wear tights at all it's only because it’s winter. There are also printed tights that a lot of women wear. It makes your outfit look more put together when there’s some design to it too. Women will also wear tall socks scrunched down to ankle length and wear booties with a dress to make the outfit look better as a whole but also at the same time makes it look not as dressy. You can style and do all sorts of different things with tights.
~ Daisy Buchanan
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Date Night Outfits in the 1920s
A lot of Date Night outfits are the same now compared to the 1920s. A lot of times they wore shawls which is what we call kimonos, they’re the thin, sometimes sheer fringy, loose cardigan type style jackets. We would wear those just as an everyday accessory but they only wore them on special occasions. They wore them out at night when going to nicer places. This was more of the boho chic inspired style. Other women got by with nice dresses and cute shoes. It mostly depended on preference. Today most of us don’t go around wearing dresses, we usually wear leggings, boots, a nicer top, and jewelry of some sort. They sometimes also added scarfs to make themselves look nicer and more put together all around. We all wear scarfs like it’s no big deal. We wear them to stay warm outside, but we also wear them as an everyday thing too. There are printed ones that you can wear with jeans and a shirt but back then they were all more elegant looking with dresses and nice outfits.
~ Daisy Buchanan
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Jewelry in the 1920s
In the 1920s jewelry was very different than it is now. They only wore two types of necklaces. They had chokers that were ribboned that were placed tightly around your neck. They also had strands of pearls or beaded necklaces on a piece of ribbon. Now we have all different sorts. We have ones the have a clasp in the back and that have jewels all over. As for earrings, they all wore dangly long earring in chandelier shapes. Now most of us have multiple different types of ear piercings and just a bunch of studs running up and down our ears. Bracelets weren’t as popular in the 20s, neither were rings. Nowadays rings are much more popular. You see more rings than anything else when you’re out. They also wore things known as shoe clips, shoe clips were added geometric shapes, stones, and/or gems that were put on old outdated shoes.
~ Daisy Buchanan
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Pants in the 1920s
Pants in the 1920s? No way! Well sort of. Women wore knickers, but they were only worn when participating in a physical activity, otherwise they just weren't acceptable. It was fine for a woman to pull on checked wool knee-length knickers and pair them with a tweed shirt, knee-high socks, and lace-up shoes as long as she had a golf club in her hand. Women now days can wear any type of pant they want at any given time. You could walk around the mall in Nike athletic shorts and no one would say a word to you, or look at you funny. You could also walk around in nice dress pants and heels and no one would say anything to you either. You may be looked upon as classier in the heels and dress pants but it’s still also very acceptable to wear whatever you’d like without being questioned.
~ Daisy Buchanan
Makeup in the 1920's
The most popular hair cut in the 1920s for women was some sort of bob. There were all different types such as the French bob, the straight bob, shingle bob, the Valentine bob and the Castle bob. The most popular way of styling the hair was by waving it. For men the style was combed back and short. In the 1920s hats were a big accessory for men and women. In todays time girls hair is typically medium-long and straight. Mens hair is typically found to be shorter on the sides, longer on the top and pushed back usually by gel, also known as flow. Today hats are more frowned upon. The only hats that are typically worn are baseball hats and worn by men. However on the coast hats are more popular because they get worn on the beach to keep the sun off your face. The difference in hairstyles over the years has drastically changed.
~ Daisy Buchanan
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