Let’s thank our great grandmothers for getting excited about the blouse. Why? Because instead of having to switch out whole dresses to change our look, we can simply put on a different top or bottom. Before separates came along, dresses and something like 14 pounds of underwear had to be changed in order to be suitable …
Fashion makes you think deeply sometimes. Yeah, I know, it’s full of surface-level judgments and there are some who would suggest fashion is all vanity, but when you take on a project of revamping your ideas about what style and fashion are, it can get you to thinking. There was a time in my 20s …
Since my blog is a work in progress — I’m working to get the things together that I need to post 1920s-inspired outfits — I thought you might like to take a peek into my current wardrobe. It may explain to you why I’m on this little adventure seeking my signature style. From now on, if I …
I’m off to travel a small section of the globe, but will be back soon with lots of ideas for how to dress “Jazz Age Chic” in the modern world. For now, I give you this as an idea for what’s to come. I have an outfit (almost) identical to this one and will share it …
It’s the weekend! Need something to wear while you’re out and about? (If you can get out and about with the storm hitting the East Coast!) How about a cute, feminine look that has elements of the 1920s? The feminine drop-waist tunic and jacket pair up with the colorful scarf and tote to tickle the …
I’m in the process of putting together a post about 1920s hair and makeup using the fun Vintage Makeup Guide for that era from Glamourdaze.com. In that guide is an illustration (pictured below) of a woman dressed so elegantly that I was inspired to curate an outfit idea that I think would be quite smashing to wear during …
My family tree is not scattered with royalty and millionaires — at least none I’ve been able to find yet. But I am lucky to be able to look back as far as the 1920s to see what some of them looked like. Even they, with their coal mining and farming incomes, they pulled off some …
The search for my Signature Style has begun. As I write this, I am researching the 1920s. I want to see how they dressed, wore their hair and makeup, what shoes they wore. We all know about the fringed flapper dress, but I wonder about the everyday wear and what did women my age wear in …