Fashions For the Flappers
Funky Fashions From Four Flappers
Fashions
Flappers gave women all over the U.S.A. more freedom. Women were allowed to wear short skirts and the waistline on the dresses dropped. Women soon discarded their corsets and took on new looks. Before the twenties women were not allowed to show their ankles. By 1926 they wore dresses that had showed their knees.
Before 1924, stockings were made of dark wool or cotton. But the "nude look" came in with stockings that showed off legs.
The nude look was bare arms, bare neck, and bare legs. It used sheer fabrics, like satins, chiffons, tulles, organzas, and silk. Madeleine Vionnet became mistress of the "bias cut." That is cutting the fabric diagonally across the grain for a draping effect.
Madeleine Vionnet was known for her clever cut of the designs such as the pointed hemline of the 1926 evening gown that was adorned by long silk tassels.
It was polite to wear a hat outdoors.
Hats were very stylish daytime wear. Some were placed on the side of the head for stylish looks. They were small, neat, and easy accessories.
One hat that was invented in 1938 was a hen hat. There is a bird sittng on the nest, or brim.
Women cut their hair to avoid accidents in factories.
By 1921 and 1922 nearly all women got their hair cut short, or as they called it, bobbed. Then the shingle came out, it was a bit waved. It was fashionable for all hair to be short, male or female.
Women got another haircut, the Eton crop, which was more boyish than before.
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A "one hour dress" was designed for women to get dressed faster and easier. The "one hour dress" was designed in 1926 by the Women's Fashion Institute. It was to be made in one hour.
Julie Andrews had a flapper look that everyone adored. The movie she starred in was made in Hollywood in 1967. It was called "Throughly Modern Millie."
Beige was the main color of fashion.
Common colors were nuetral colors, such as beige and white. But a Russian Ballet showed off the bright colors like purple and orange.
"The ghost of Khaki" is sometimes what beige was called because much of that color dye was left after World War I.
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A musical comedy's song in 1925 was an imformal anthem for the flappers.
"Flappers are we
Flappers and fly and free.
Never to slow
All on the go...
Dizzy with dangerous glee"