1920 fashion women

“choose your favorite fashion era!”

Back in the days before the camera was king, fashions were portrayed to the masses through artfully illustrated drawings. Somebody has collected a series of these beautiful sketches, documenting the changes in western fashion all the way from 1784 to 1970, when the artform finally became obsolete.

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

1920 Style

When World War One ended in 1918, people were obviously happy. So happy in fact that their collective euphoria ultimately influenced the fashion of the time. The era came to be defined by the emergence of vintage fashion, and as you can see from these pictures, it still looks awesome over 90 years later.

________________ Yola Letellier: Yola Letellier served as the model for the character Gigi in the novel of the same name by the French writer Colette. A friend of Pamela Hicks, the youngest daughter of Earl Mountbatten, Hicks wrote that her father had met a “young, extremely attractive, boyish-looking girl with cropped hair and a little snub nose – a French ‘gamine’. Yola did not live with us but would visit frequently, bringing us charming gifts.” Mountbatten had married Edwina Ashley in…

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For nearly one hundred years, 1920s women's fashion has been known as one of the most glamorous and innovative periods in modern fashion history.