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Showing posts with label 1920s. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 1920s. Show all posts

1920s Shoes

1920s T bar shoes Shoe design in the 1920s departed somewhat from the high button boots and jet embroidered slippers prevalent in previ...

The Eton Crop

Josephine Baker Dark and Shiny If you were a radical flapper in the 1920s, you might have considered sporting an Eton crop , a very ...

Marcel Wave

The Marcel wave was a very popular hairstyle of the 1920s and worked particularly well on the new and fashionable bob hairstyle that was...

Swing Dancing: Lindy Hop. Jitterbug, Jive

The Origins Of Swing Swing dancing goes right back to the raging 1920s, where it developed alongside jazz music among the bl...

Vita Sackville West

Trendsetter, forward thinker, poet, novelist, gardener, lesbian lover... Vita Sackville West was an iconic, eccentric figure of the e...

The Cloche Hat

Straw, felt and velvet appliqued cloche. Victoria &Albert Museum The cloche was to the 1920s what the snood was to the '40s, o...

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