Back to the Twenties?

The '20s were a cute time for fashion, as well as an important time for women exercising new freedoms. Nostalgia for the period is a good thing, I think. . . although I'm not entirely sure about doing so in see-through dresses or necklines to the waist. . . making more objects of themselves doesn't exactly personify the spirit of the decade, I think, but that's just me. . .

Gwens hair looks reallly nice, She cleans up nicely. Jessica Simpson was wearing the same type of dress at the music awards. I like the way these girls are dressing lately, they don't leave much for your imagination. Gwens hair looks so much better then the pics from 8-16 I think was the other date on that page.

If we're bringing back the 20's, could Louise Brooke's bob be mandatory?

Please.

Kuroneko wrote: I don't think '20s style is old-fashioned so much as classic. Now, if hoop skirts or bustles were coming back in, that I'd think was too old-fashioned, but miniskirts, cloche hats, and art deco accessories still look as good now as they did eighty years ago.

I'm sure there are some people who feel that "hoop skirts and bustles" are "classic" and that 20's looks are "old-fashioned."

It seems as though our perspective of culture has been strongly influenced by the advent of technologies that permitted the storing and sharing of accurate images in new two-dimensional forms (photograph and film), and in the fashions/styles that existed at that time -- as if there were no such thing as hair styles or clothing fashions before the 1920's.

I dunno about people in general, but I feel I'm pretty aware on hair and clothing styles throughout recorded history. Maybe there aren't photos from much before this century, but I've looked at books full of fashion illustrations, pictures of preserved clothing, and things like that. It's fun to look at, but some of the clothes look really unbearable to wear! Things like corsets so tight they caused deformations in women's rib cages, skirts so full a woman couldn't sit in a chair, those really huge collars with the massive ruffles. . . it just makes me glad fashion is a lot more relaxed now. Part of the reason I admire '20s fashion is because it started the path towards more relaxed styles for women, since women didn't have to wear corsets or long skirts anymore, and even though it wasn't widespread there were pants being marketed for women around that time, if I remember the fashion history books well enough. '20s fashion was pretty much the first step towards modern fashion, which is probably why it counts as classic. Fashion really hasn't revisited the bustles and hoop skirts on any wide scale, as far as I know, outside of costume parties and historical re-enactors. Unfortunately, corsets do come back from time to time. Fortunately, they're no longer so tight as to deform women's rib cages and push their organs into unnatural arrangelents, the way they used to, so I guess that counts as some progress.


It seems as though our perspective of culture has been strongly influenced by the advent of technologies that permitted the storing and sharing of accurate images in new two-dimensional forms (photograph and film), and in the fashions/styles that existed at that time -- as if there were no such thing as hair styles or clothing fashions before the 1920's.