The Roaring Twenties rhyme with creativity ! The arts flourish, communicate with each other, and demonstrate boldness. Surrealism is celebrated.
Photographer Man Ray sublimates the female body. Everyone wants to be in Gertrude Steirn's literary salon, where she welcomes the greatest names in American literature. : Dos Passos, Hemingway, Steinbeck.
After the events of the Great War, people wanted something new, something light, and something shiny. The same was true of fashion in the 1920s, with a significant movement toward women's emancipation.
Many people, like Louise Brooks or Josephine Baker, are adopting short, boyish haircuts.
Skirts and dresses are getting shorter, revealing legs, and lines are becoming more fluid with straight cuts. Some are daring to wear pants. Women are becoming androgynous and asserting themselves, including in their outfits.
Some, like in England, obtain the right to vote.
However, we do not neglect accessories and dresses, especially the beautifully crafted evening dresses. : in silk, with fringes, with sequins or even glass beads.
This is the Gatsby dress that everyone knows and let's face it, some would love to have the special occasion to wear it.
To get a better idea of the feminine and masculine looks, it is best to review " The Artist » with Jean Dujardin or the series « Peaky Blinders ".
1929 and the Wall Street Crash put an end to all this splendor. All that glitter was put away in favor of more sober colors, less jewelry and less fur. But that's another story.
In the meantime, what accessories or clothes from the Roaring Twenties would you like to adopt in your daily life? ?