For the 1980’s we can’t find enough data to know. I can tell you that the majority of red and yellow was popular in the 1980’s. The colors of orange, blue, green, and yellow were also popular. The most popular color of blue was “blue”. The color is also called “Dalmatian blue”, it is the […]
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There is no evidence to suggest that the color of these ladies’ outfits would correspond to whatever colors were being worn by the men on that era’s parade routes. When did the ‘New Deal’ take effect? It didn’t happen quite so suddenly as might have been feared. The first waves of the New Deal’s anti-poverty […]
Pets are typically allowed in a house for two hours every day. So a party of three people (and dogs, of course) could be held during this hour (about 2.25 to 3 p.m.). It’s not common to have a petting party that lasts four or five hours, although it would be fine for that one […]
Flapper dresses were usually a combination of floral and beaded patterns printed on the bodice along with lace designs, but sometimes a beaded pattern was the basic design. How did flappers get those elaborate necklaces? Flapper jewelry was often made out of beaded materials that may have been found in local treasure chests. The jewelry […]
A female flapper or flapper wearing a long coat over shorts is in fact a ‘slapper’, or, as some people say, a ‘cousin’, with a name that means ‘half-nude’ – ‘slapper’ being the English term for a half-dressed female. The female flapper is typically either blonde, brunette or redhead and is usually seen in her […]
Black. I don’t even remember these colors. It’s all black and white. We used to shoot with these big, bright green film cameras. A lot of it was just shooting at night, in front of mirrors. Can you remember your first major hit? I think it was “Chrysalis’ – it was written by the British […]
When did it become fashionable for women to wear short skirts? In the 1920’s there was a wave of popularity for the flapper dress. Women started to dress like caricatures of themselves. The dress was popular because the silhouette was attractive and fashionable. This style of dressing was originally pioneered by the French in early […]
“In 1923 we were still living in an era when the middle-class women were not seen much anymore,” says Pincus. “They were much more invisible — or at least they were. In 1926, the ‘Lady’ dress came in.” A large portion of a lady’s wardrobe during the 1920s was meant to accompany the ‘Ladies’ Day’ […]
As the late-1880s drew to a close, so did the era-defining fashion for flappers. Fashion changes quickly in a hot decade, so for many girls in “The Flapper Age” the period was one of transition, which, while not quite as dramatic as men’s style change, did mean a shift in how their looks would be […]