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[flossiebentonrogers]

Tuesday Tales 2024-12-31 Year

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[yesterdaysprint]

Daily Mirror, England, April 8, 1920

[frostedmagnolias]

Shoes by Philips Shoes

c. 1925-1935

The National Museum of Norway

[woodlandkisses]

Headpieces by Thierry Mugler

[vintagesapphics]

women kissing at the 1990 National Bisexual Conference in San Francisco, CA

[luxus-aeterna]

A Sunday in Galveston

[wh0-is-lily]

Undergarments of The Edwardian Era

[countess--olenska]

Dior ‘Flamant Rose’ gown, 1948

[nonasuch]

Please tell us about your beef with fringed black minidresses

They’re not even 20s through a Hollywood filter. They’re Hollywood 20s put through several more filters of ahistorical bullshit and sweatshop-labor fast fashion, and I hate them.

Like, let’s compare the kind of dress I get asked for with the closest actual 20s dress I could find an image of.

Things in common: black. some beads? I guess?

Now here is a selection of actual 20s evening dresses that are much more representative of the era:

No one ever asks me for anything that looks like this. Not that it would help if they did, because surviving original 20s garments tend to be both tiny and fragile, when they’re in wearable condition at all.

So I usually end up helping them find a 60s drop waist black dress and calling it good enough. It’s very frustrating.

[the-home]

Terretts Place

[bebs-art-gallery]

The Lamb of God (1432)

— by Hubert and Jan van Eyck

[bebx]

illustration of an ice pick lobotomy

[frostedmagnolias]

Cape

Late 1890s

The John Bright Collection

[yesterdaysprint]

Etiquette Problems in Pictures, Lillian Eichler, 1924

[sealedintime]

Cat on a car, October 1958. New York City, Photo by Angelo Rizzuto