Women's Fashion from the 1920's

Thank you very much for sharing your experience and your photographs.

Dolores and I enjoyed the Downton Abbey costume exhibit at Winterthur in Wilmington, Delaware.

Patricia, this just makes me salivate visually. Back in college I was one of the actors/dancers in Mame, that we did on a huge stage. It was one of the most extravagant shows West Virginia University's theatre department had ever done. I got to wear actual flapper dresses and have gravitated towards that style off and on throughout the years. They weren't wearing bras, you know, either! My granny was a Flapper, hat and all. We have a photo of her wearing one, gosh she looked fabulous! 
You and Sharon Tara look quite stunning. I would kill for your dress (and your heighth!! haha)

Hi Patricia - I too would have loved this event. My mom too was born in the mid 20's. The suit she got married in was fabulous - I'd wear it today if it was around. Love the Sharon and Patricia moment - you both are gorgeous. In, and out, of photoshop attire. :)

Hi Patricia - the roaring 20's were a pivital time for women as well as everyone else.  I have some pictures of my grandmother with those hats and dresses.

For one reason or another, the year 1928 has always reigned supreme in my mind for fashion!  A couple years ago, one of my daughter's friends got married. Her wedding, and especially her dress was done in 1928 fashion.

CONGRATULATIONS, Patricia, on having this blog FEATURED in the PHOTOS group! 

Patricia the roaring 20's was a special and unique time period in many ways.

I love vintage fashion and old movies. Movies from the 20's always showed men and women alike dressed to the nine's all the time. In some ways I wish we "dressed up" a bit more. It's hard to find a place to go where there isn't someone wearing casual clothes, even to a ballet and the theater.

Patricia I love this era of fashion!  It was 'in' back in the 80's just a bit and I had several dresses similiar - and loved them all!  Very fun!

Looking at the work  Sharon Tara did with her cropping makes me think of the young girls of my day playing with their Barbie dolls.  I like today's look better 

Aloha Patricia, after the passing of my Great Grandmother a cache of dresses purchased by my Great grandfather in Paris after WWI were discovered carefully preserved in garment bags in one of her closets along with table linens,  napkins, and kitchen dish towels indicative of the time, apparently the items had been packed away in one her many moves and had remained in storage while she lived in Panama during the late 30's and 40's and was never unpacked until after her death. They were so well preserved you would have thought they were just made. 

Patricia Feager, MBA, GRI, Cert Negotiations Expert, Military Relo Prof What a fabulous exhibit!  I love these dresses.  Women had won more independence but they still looked so beautiful and graceful.   And they had fun!

I'll not comment on the fashion, though Sharon Tara and you look great in that photo.

I do think that women did start to truly identify as separate entities in the early 20th century.  I wonder if that was due to better/more education than in centuries past, or if it was due to better economic conditions than in centuries past.

It seems to me that the history of fashion is much more interesting than modern fashion, so I always read articles like this one with great pleasure and watch different films about the history of fashion. Sometimes it is difficult for me to find something fashionable, but at the same time of high quality and not very expensive, because I wear Prayer Dress, Hijabs, Abayas and there are problems with it. However, even in my case, there are good online stores.