History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. ~Winston Churchill

07 February, 2014

Fashion Drawings of the 1920s

The look of fashion drawings from the 1920s is perhaps more stylized than that of any other decade-- the elongated, impossibly slender women and the boldy simple patterns (though it is interesting to note the men often don't receive the same treatment). These kinds of drawings can be seen from Vogue covers to mail-order catalogues. I think they are terrific-- though it sometimes must have been disappointing to see the geometric lines disappear with a real dress on a real woman! 

From the Picture Collection of the New York Public Library. 


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Evening wear, 1921. Source




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Evening wear, 1922. Source




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Men's suits, 1920s. Source





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Day/outdoor wear, 1922. Source




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Coats, about 1922. Source




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Evening wear for woman and child, 1920. Source




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Hats and coats (and great stockings!), 1927. Source




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Men's coats, apparently, 1921. Source




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Men in suits, 1921. Source




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1921. Source




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Evening wear, 1921. Source




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Dress for travelling, 1921. Source




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Evening dress, 1921. Source




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Men's overcoat, 1922. Source




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Suits and bathing suits, 1920. Source




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Evening dresses, ca. 1925. Source




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Day dress (?). Source




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Fashionable mother and children, 1920. Source




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Evening dress, 1921. Source




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Brightly coloured two-tone dresses, 1929. Source


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