Month: November 2020

What do you wear to a Great Gatsby party? – Vintage Flapper Dresses 1920S Photos Speakeasy Internet

You’re wearing a black suit and you are sitting in on dinner with the famous people. That’s the dress code that the New York Times recently called “the uniform of the upper crust.” The Gatsbys were not wealthy. They were, by any measure, middle-class. When they traveled, they always went at the same time of […]

What were the flappers trying to prove? – Flapper Dress Costumes Images Cartoon

Flapper-like garments, such as crape waistcoats, were supposed to give women freedom of movement. The flapper movement was supposed to show that women could have “freedom of dress, dress and dress” and that women should be able to “dress for themselves, dress for themselves and act in whatever manner they feel. They could use dresses […]

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