The pinnacle of glamour

I have a love for most decades of fashion but there is something so enticing and daring about the trends of the mid 1920's. The younger generation of women who were regarded as 'flappers' dared to push the social norms with their knee length dresses, cropped hair and bold make up. They would show the tops of their stockings, apply make up in public, smoke and go to many parties and social events.

What stands out to me though is the drastic change from Edwardian trends of tightly laced corsets, floor length skirts and high collars to then wearing knee length dresses, no corsets and bearing legs, arms and backs. The 1960's have been deemed an era of real change and a time when fashion was really daring.

I do agree that the 60's was a time when boundaries were pushed and completely changed, but the change between the late 1900's and mid 1920's to me was much more drastic and something to be marveled at.

These women liberated themselves with cutting their hair, and also by wearing make up. In the previous decade women would not wear make up and if they did wear a little, they would buy it discreetly and apply it in private.

This era consisted of simple yet beautifully elegant, drop waisted dresses and short crop hair cuts. Like no other decade, women were so glamorous yet they did not go through so much effort and discomfort in the wearing of corsets as many previous decades.

I absolutely adore these kinds of photographs as I believe they capture to true elegance and flavour of 1920's glamour.