A day in Verdun with my family (outfit pictures were taken home though)
I haven't dressed up nicely at all since Christmas because of my health, but I still have a few outfits from late November to early December to post (and even some from Japan still), so I do not lack of content.
Outfit rundown
Pants: vintage
Cardigan: second-hand earth, music and ecology
Bag: second-hand Fint
Hat: thrifted
Turtleneck: Heattech by Uniqlo
Boots: old Cobb Hill
Herbs rack brooch: Lily of the Valley
Lady of Shallot necklace and shiotake brooch are from artists whose names I can't remember
*I was also wearing a MM coat, unpictured
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this slide talks about the 'le garconne' which translates to the flapper girl and gives a summary how the term was used etc
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The Roaring 20s
La Garconne
The phrase La Garconne originated from a novel created in 1922 which portrayed a fashionable heroine by the name of Monique who was portrayed to challenge current gender stereotypes. She did this through cutting her hair short, wearing men's clothing and giving birth out of wedlock. She became an inspiration to young women who aspired to dress and look like Monique, La Grconne came to be associated with the independence that women in the 20s were gaining.
However, in reality "La Garconne" became more of a derogitary term used towards women with loose morals.
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Me and Coco Chanel, we're not that different (liking to wear our boyfriend's clothing)
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The 1920s - part 2
The Look
Typical underwear of the 1920s
This advertisement for the new freedom corset helped women to achieve the flat shapes and less figure hugging look required to make the fashions of the 1920s look good on the every day woman.
The new stylish look of the 1920s
The Eaton crop was a revolution in hair styles.
Feathered headbands and turbans were the look of the era, they were often the image associated with the La Garconne / flapper look in which was inspired by the art nouveau style left over from the 1910′s and by the mid 1920′s. If you chose to wear one, you pushed it well back and lost the feathers. Sequined caps were also a big thing and heavily ornamented were also popular. Hat Fashion went side by side with hair styles. The big decision facing many women was to Bob or not to Bob, to Crop or not to Crop, or just play safe go with the Fingerwave style.
Menswear
The Prince of Wales was the ambassador for British fashion and fabrics across the world.
In 1922, Fair Isle knits were made fashionable by the Prince of Wales when he wore one on the golf course at St Andrews.
The Prince’s support of the Fair Isle sweater probably helped to save the knitting industry that remains to this day on the small Scottish island.
During 1925 the men wore ‘bum freezer’ length jackets. Here we see gentlemen at the races in the new relaxed jackets.
Sporting wear in England consisted of white flannel trousers and blazers. This was a very relaxed and elegant look.
The 1920s passion for dressing soft extended to fabrics as well as to patterns and colours, tweed was extremely popular. Often in gaudy checks and bright stripes.
1925 marks the year that Oxford bags were born, they replaced the slim trousers worn by most young men. For the next 30 years, loose fitting trousers would remain the fashionable fit. The image below shows the comfortable functional aspects of the original 28 inch grow to 40 inch.
Day wear may have become more relaxed but when it came to evening wear men where still expected to wear black tie and tails. Below we see a typical evening scene with men dressed in black dickie-bows and evening suits. This was a universal style adopted by all men which we still see today.
Rudolph Valentino was the heart throb of the silent movies and influenced the hairstyle shown below of American and English men. The look was achieved by soaking the hair and wrapping the head in linen bandages until it dried.
Men’s shoes came in a variety of styles and patterns – perfect for ‘cutting a rug’ in the roaring twenties (1925)
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