1920s in fashion for women. What did flappers really wear? Trends, Gatsby dresses, hairstyles, and makeup guides. Where to buy.
As the roaring 1920s dawned, the consumer boom of the post-war era brought many new freedoms and swelled the ranks of the middle class. The popularity of sports encouraged designers like Madeleine Vionnet, Jean Patou, and the ubiquitous Coco Chanel to discard the corsets of the past. The 1920s woman was slim, vivacious. Her skirts were rising. She cropped her hair, wore stockings, and makeup. And she is forever remembered as the iconic flapper.
Browse the 1920s in fashion. The trends as actually worn by women of the 1920s. Get inspiration for bobbed hairstyles and makeup for your next flapper or Gatsby party.
A Concise history in 1920s Fashion from 1919 to 1929.
Explore our main 1920s fashion content hub.
1920s Dress Code.
1920s Flapper Fashion – the top tier page for all flapper-related history.
1920s Hats – The iconic Cloche Hat.
Explore 1920s hairstyles – bobbed hair, crops
The 1920s Dress – drop-waist dresses.
What did 1920s Flappers really wear?
1920s Lingerie.
1920s Makeup styles.
1920s Women’s Shoes.
The 1920s Silhouette.
1920s Ladies Stockings.
The 1920s Swimsuit.
1920s Old Hollywood Style.
Art Deco Fashion history.
These are only a few highlights. Sit back and dive in to our glorious roaring twenties fashion archive. Learn what flappers really wore and how they lived. Learn the names of popular 1920s hairstyles like the Dutch bob. The Eton crop or the Poodle bob. Who made them famous?
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Time travel back a century to 1920 for a day on Palm beach in Florida. AI enhanced from silent black & white footage to ultra HD color film at 60 fps frame rate with sound. ( nine years before actual sound film). Hope you enjoy. A special thank you to the folks managing the Moving …
Time travel back to China of 1929 for a rare 1920s Shanghai fashion and hairstyle feature. Restored by Deep learning AI enhancement. Footage from the Moving Image Research Collections with kind permission of the University of South Carolina. Colorized using deep exemplar-based video colorization. Presented ( purportedly) by a niece of Alfred Sao-Ku Sze, China’s …
Time travel back to roaring 20s Biarritz France on a September day in 1928 thanks to the magic of AI neural networks.Original footage from the Moving Image Research Collections. With kind permission of the University of South Carolina. Watch A Day at the Beach – Biarritz 1928 – updated The film starts with clips from …
Century old film unearthed in AI enhanced glory Time travel back a century to a beach in Holland filmed circa 1921. What we love about this 100 year old film is that we see normal working class people having fun.The early 1920’s social attitudes were still quite conservative when it came to swimming in public.As …
Parisian Woman captured in a fragment of color film in 1925. A young 1920’s Paris flapper captured in a fragment of color film in 1925.Part of a series of clips from a 1920’s fashion photo-shoot in 1920’s Paris, A French woman models jewelry, necklaces and makeup compacts. Her bobbed hair and dress is typical of …
In Flaming Youth 1923, Colleen Moore propelled the 1920’s flapper makeup look to fame. We AI enhanced this charming clip from the surviving 11 minutes of footage. Colleen Moore’s Crazy Flapper Makeup Routine 1923 Colleen Moore and her iconic bob hairstyle, hair bangs and cupids bow lipstick. The way she lashes on gallons of powder, …
Bobbed hair – 1926 film brought to life with AI deep learning techniques. To bob or not to bob ! The burning question for flappers in the mid 1920s. This wonderful time capsule comes from a newsreel in the Swedish commons library – Arkivkopia. Swedish hairdressers demonstrate how bobbed hair, hair shingling and finger waves …
Flappers in the USSR ? AI Enhanced film of a very different side to the Soviet Union in 1929. Filmed largely in Odessa in the Ukraine. Flappers in 1929 in Odessa Ukraine | AI Enhanced Film AI enhanced and upscaled edit from the classic 1929 documentary “Man with a Movie Camera.”Directed by Dziga Vertov and …
Time travel experience of a day in roaring twenties Berlin. From dawn until dusk in three minutes. 1920’s Berlin of the Weimar Republic was a multi-cultural city. Teeming with flappers,bobbed hair,cloche hats, and the dancing girls of Berlin’s infamous Cabaret scene. Roaring Twenties Berlin – AI Enhanced 1927 Film This is a short AI enhanced …
Time travel back to Paris of the roaring 20’s. The flappers, bobbed hair, cloche hats, and dancing to jazz!And being Paris, of course chilling at the numerous Parisian cafe’s. Roaring 20’s Paris – AI Enhanced 1927 Film An AI restored edit of a Burton Holmes travelogue – Seeing Paris. It is preserved by the Prelinger …