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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
Hair in the 1920s
In the 1920s makeup started becoming a lot more popular because of the start of film, literature, and theater. The main types of makeup worn was blush, mascara, and lipstick. Indelible blushes were very popular. Mascara was only used to make the lashes appear darker and fuller applied with a fine brush. Mascara was made with household products such as petroleum jelly and soot and then applied with the fine brush. Different lip products were first being invented in the 20s, lip stains became very popular along with lipsticks right after for more of a shine. Now makeup is a lot more common. We use foundation, powder, blush, bronzer, highlighter, concealer, eyeshadow, eyeliner, mascara, and lip color of somesort. You can fix just about every flaw you have with a little bit of makeup. Makeup is more frowned upon today than it was back in the 20s. Men like women to look more natural now, back in the 20s they had much simpler looks rather than dramatic and sharp looks now. The makeup industry has grown tremendously since the 1920s.
~ Daisy Buchanan
Skirts of the 1920's
Skirts were definitely shorter than they have ever been before, hitting the calf instead of the ankle. A lot of the skirts were still higher waisted and had a fuller form than dresses. Skirts were also known to be worn with baggy blouses and sweaters in order to give off a drop waist affect. This look was also achieved with hanging belts or sometimes a fake drop waist was sewn in. Day skirts were typically pleated and worn with a loose belted jumpers or a cardigan with a hat. This type of style became a staple of the 1920s. Instead of billowing skirts, they were made very close fitting to the body and called Robe de Style. In the early twenties a long column plaid skirt was very popular. Later in the twenties these skirts were “followed by pleated mid knee skirts in the mid 1920’s, and handkerchief hem chiffon skirts in the later years. Worn with a delicate chiffon blouse for day wear, beaded top for evenings, or loose cardigan sweater for a sporty look, skirts were versatile and affordable fashion.” 3
~ Daisy Buchanan
Hemlines of 1920's
Typically women didn’t show much leg before the 1920’s. In the 1920s more leg was shown than ever before. The hemline had reached 9 inches off of the ground (Lower calf). 1919 was the first year that women showed their legs in public. As the hemline got shorter, waist lines dropped. Instead of sitting on the the waist, they fell to a point between the natural waist and the hips. Eventually, it dropped to the hip itself. The most popular type of skirt was was straight and knee length. These type of skirt were mostly worn by young, boyish figured women like the flappers. Eventually older and curvier women adopted these styles as well. Half Way through the the 20s dresses emerged without a waist line at all and hemlines rose to the knee. When the stock market crashed in 1929, the hemline dropped back down to the lower calf.
Fitness Clothes of the 1920's
Exercising and being fit wasn’t as big in the 1920s as it it now. Women didn’t really have a huge selection of clothes to wear for when they did want to be active (even though they didn't really have a lot of sports to play). When women did play sports they played golf, horse riding, swimming at the beach, tennis and skiing. For golf they wore tailored blouses and skirts, much like business wear. Eventually they expanded to wearing tweed jackets so that their clothes wouldn't tear when they swung. For horse riding they wore hard hats, jodhpurs, riding or hacking jackets or sometimes skirts When they went to the beach they were very limited. They wore what is known as beach pyjamas which consisted of trousers and a casual shirt. For tennis they wore long skirts and restrictive shirts at first but eventually they expanded to short skirts and even shorts at one point. They also ditched the hat so that they could actually see what was going on. For skiing they wore “ Long Norwegian trousers with cuffed hems were worn with short boxy jackets with wide shoulders that accommodated sweaters beneath them.”
~ Daisy Buchanan
Skin Care of the 1920's
Typically, we don't think people of the 1920s were big skincare people like we are today. But, they were obsessed with a few things. For example there were many beauty treatments to make you look younger. They promised to ¨maintain the fresh unlined appearance of youth and keep the contours of your face firm and rounded¨. Another product claimed to ¨strengthen the exhausted tissues, round out furrowed cheeks, and invigorate sagging muscles of the cheeks and neck.¨ (1). Something else women of the 1920s aimed to achieve to look more awake with eye cream products claiming to ¨the tired lined appearance is entirely removed, while it improves the sight and prevents wrinkles and lines.¨ (1). The other thing women wanted to achieve was a young appearance through their forties with many different creams and oils from Marie Barlow. Her ad says to ¨Give just ten minutes a day to your complexion with this simple home treatment.¨
~ Daisy Buchanan
Dresses of the 1920s
Dresses in the 1920s were a lot different than they are now. In the 1920s dresses were lighter due to lighter fabric and a lot shorter than women were used too. Bright, vibrant colors were introduced in this era. A huge trend were evening dresses and coats trimmed with fur. Sleeves were usually long and and close fitting. There was almost always a collar treatment that is either high or cut very close to the throat. The most common silhouette was straight and simple with plaits. Each year of the 1920s, silhouette became a little more man like each year, which exposed the feminine woman underneath. With the super short skirts, shirts were also cut shorter as well. They stopped at the top of the hips. The necklines were V, square or bateau. A huge fashion trend was a tight belt around the top of the hips for day or night attire..
Shirts of the 1920's
Women did not always have to wear dresses in the 1920s against popular belief and representation. Shirts were a comfortable alternative that was actually quite popular. There were different types of shirts. ¨Blouses were pullovers that buttoned down the front and had a another set of buttons on either side of the waistband.¨(). Another type of shirt was the shirtwaist, ¨Shirtwaists or just ‘waists’ were loose pullover tops with a single button at the back of the neck. Ties on the side or a bow on the back waist pulled in at the hips just a little”(1). Sleeves were typically long sleeved and cuffed at the ends. Sleeves were shorter in the summer months.
A staple in many women's wardrobes of the 1920s were some sort of white or tan ¨Broadcloth¨. They were ¨lightweight, long-sleeved tops featured either rounded large Peter Pan collars or the over-sized pointed collar, perhaps with cute thin bows that either tied at the neck or hung down over the neckline.¨(1). In the 1920s shirts started to become more colorful instead of the normal black and white.
~ Daisy Buchanan
Friday, January 30, 2015
Shoes of the 1920's
There are many differences between shoes of the 1920's and the "in" shoes now.Today, the most popular shoes consist of Uggs, Hunter boots and Nike running shoes. Back in the 1920's shoes were put into three groups. Pumps (no straps), ankle straps (Mary Janes), and T straps. The most popular type of shoes were closed toe and had a heel. The dress shoes consisted of a pointy toe and either a curved heel or a block heel. The heels usually were about 2.5 inches tall. Compared to the "normal" heel we see now that are usually at least 4 inches tall, the heels of the 1920's would now be considered "kitten heels" for young girls.
Shoes were typically made of fabric exteriors for nighttime shoes or leather for daytime shoes. During the day, women typically low heeled mary janes or oxfords. The night time shoes were typically contrasting colors like gold and silver whereas the daytime shoes were more neutral, subtle tones.
~Daisy Buchanan
Source: http://speakeasy.discoverhurley.org/download/1920s_Women's_Shoes.pdf
Shoes were typically made of fabric exteriors for nighttime shoes or leather for daytime shoes. During the day, women typically low heeled mary janes or oxfords. The night time shoes were typically contrasting colors like gold and silver whereas the daytime shoes were more neutral, subtle tones.
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~Daisy Buchanan
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