Lost 1920s Fashion Film in color

Vintage Fashion film in color from 1928

An extra clip from the wonderful 1920s fashion feature –  discovered by our good friend Murray Glass of Emgee Films. Murray had acquired a large collection of old film negative and he came across a feature from California advertising a local couture company. You can watch the original feature and read our interview with Murray …

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1920s Fashion – Autumn Wardrobe and Beauty Makeover 1928.

Time traveling beauty consultant Carolyn Van Wyck – dishes out 1920s wardobe and beauty advice to a girl in 1928. That all important day when you have to consider your winter beauty regime, put those summer skirts away, fold up your swimsuits and consider what to keep from last years wardrobe and what to add …

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Lady Olive Baillie – The English Great Gatsby.

Lady Olive Baillie – The English Great Gatsby. The subject of  BBC4’s excellent Woman’s Hour this week was the experiences of women in Britain after the First World War and on into the 1920’s. Women’s role in employment, politics and in the family were discussed. But it was the arrival of former Labour MP Shirley …

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1920’s Clothing and Dress Color Combinations

Illustrated 1920’s Dress Color Combinations Photoplay’s Caroline Van Wyck writes in 1928 about “distinctive dressing”. With 1920’s hats the same tight little shape on every woman, with 1920s dresses the same slender models, it’s hard for a busy a girl to find distinctive clothes. Read how color helps the clever girl! Visit our top tier …

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1927 Fashion Film in Color Restored to Life

Discovered - 1920s-Color-fashion-movie

1927 fashion film featuring cloche hats and 1920s dresses restored using AI techniques, to 4k 60 fps with added sound and a female spoken voiceover. Film archivist Murray Glass Murray Glass is native New Yorker from the Bronx, a chemist and musician, began his love for spooling old film when his father bought him a ‘toy’ …

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Evolution of Women’s Dress – 1914 to 1929

Here we present an early fashion ‘retrospective’ from 1929 looking back at how women’s fashions had evolved in the 15 years spanning from 1914 to 1929. No other fashion era displayed such a change in women’s styles than the years which followed the  First World War up to and through the decade of the 1920’s. …

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