If last week was about embracing my masculine side with the 1920s “tomboy” trend known as La Garçonne, this week is about going girlie on the guy look. Below is a photo of a woman who would fit right in to Coco Chanel’s La Garçonne era. Isn’t she gorgeous? I thought about recreating this look for my …
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. ~ Coco Chanel It’s hard to imagine a time when women’s apparel wasn’t inspired in some way by menswear. Trousers, blazers, the button-down collared shirt, oxford …
“Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.” ~ Coco Chanel Coco Chanel was one of the first designers to bring sportswear into everyday wear. She saw the necessity (and luxury) in comfort. One of the many values of making comfort a priority was the freedom it gave women to move like normal people. …
It’s hard to argue with the fact that Coco Chanel was a fashion genius. She single-handedly changed how women dress in the modern Western world. We went from wearing nearly 20 pounds of corsetry and underwear to freeform drop waists and wool jersey almost overnight, all thanks to Chanel. We can also thank her for gifting us …
Trying on the iconic styles of the 1920s has been a lot of fun. It is an era that apparently speaks to me because I’m still working on it. Up until now, I’ve been moved by the finer looks of the era — the fabrics, the beading, the fringe. It seems blasphemous to consider wearing …
In spite of the huge trend in the 1920s for women to sport a more tomboy look (short hair, shapeless dresses, and sportswear inspired by men’s fashion), it can never be said that women back then looked anything other than feminine. The outfit below was modeled in 1919, a year before the decade of my current …
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 …