Timeline of Costume:

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20th Century Western Costume: 1920 -1930

Accessories Book & Gift Store Classes Corsets & Underwear Computers Costumes 4 Sale Costume e-Lists Dance Costumes Designs & Designers Dolls "Ethnic" Dress Fashion Theory Free eGroup Free Stuff Halloween (Costume) History How-To Kinky Clothing Major Sites Military Uniforms Movie Costumes Museums New Pages Occupational & Occasion- Specific Patterns Questions? Religious Dress Theatre History Travel for Costumers Unite! Vintage Clothing Weddings Weird Clothing	Louise Brooks Buy this Photo at AllPosters.com	Margot Asquith in 1920
	Leaf-shape hat on pg 3 of The Illustrated Milliner Magazine of June 1923 (click image for larger version).	Louise Brooks Eugene Richee Buy This Art Print At AllPosters.com
	A blouse of Violet Georgette, with beadwork from the National Cloak and Suit Company Catalog for 1920.	A Crepe de Chine Blouse from the 1920 National Catalog

Some good books / videos where you can learn more: Dressing Up Vintage Women's Wear of the 1920's: With Complete Patterns	Two More silk blouses from the National Catalog of 1920.	This is a Detail of the National cover, click it to see the full size cover.
	Louise Brooks Buy This Photo At AllPosters.com	(click image for larger version) An English "Court" shoe of 1920.
	c. 1920	Gazette du Bon Ton, 1920
and 1930s The 1920S (Fashion Sourcebooks)	from a 1920 French Tailoring magazine for women

1920S Fashions from B. Altman & Company Art in Dress (1922) Gowns by Adrian : The MGM Years 1928-1941 Dandies : Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture	Brown Silk dress with chiffon collar c.1920
	Gazette du Bon Ton, 1921	Plate from Le Bon Genre 1921
	The Modern Priscilla, 1921	The Designer, 1921

Bathing Beauties : French Photo Postcards of the 1920s Authentic French Fashions of the Twenties : 413 Costume Designs from L'Art Et LA Mode Everyday Fashions of the Twenties As Pictured in Sears and Other Catalogs The Costume Collector's Companion 1890-1990 Fashion Accessories: The Complete 20th Century Sourcebook The Female Economy : The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930 (Working Class in American History)	La Gazette du Bon Ton, 1921 Images of these plates kindly provided by ACarter of eBay, seller of Antique prints and Magazines
	1921	Images and Patterns from P.Clement Brown's Art In Dress
	1920's men's suits	c 1920
	1921 from the Delineator	c. 1920 from the Haas Bros. Catalog
	c. 1920 from the Haas Bros. Catalog

1925	1924	1921

Madeleine Vionnet After a Fashion: How to Reproduce, Restore, and Wear Vintage Styles Video: Dances of the Ragtime Era: 1910-1920/ How to Dance Through Time: Vol II	Louise Brooks Buy This Photo At AllPosters.com	1922
	1922	Gazette du Bon Ton, 1922
	Gazette du Bon Ton, 1922	Gazette du Bon Ton, 1922

Dancetime! 500 Years of Social Dance Vol II : 20th Century Fashions of the Early Twenties: The 1921 Philipsborn's Catalog (Dover Books on Fashion) Posing a Threat : Flappers, Chorus Girls, and Other Brazen Performers of the American 1920s Vintage Fashions for Women 1920s-1940s : With Values	Gazette du Bon Ton, 1922	Gazette du Bon Ton, 1922
	Gazette du Bon Ton, 1922	Gazette du Bon Ton, 1922
	Gazette du Bon Ton, 1922	Gazette du Bon Ton, 1922

Gordon Conway : Fashioning a New Woman Women's Wear of the 1920's: With Complete Patterns	Gazette du Bon Ton, 1922	Gazette du Bon Ton, 1922
	Gazette du Bon Ton, 1922	Ward's Catalog 1922
	Plate from Le Bon Genre 1922	Plate from Le Bon Genre 1922

1920S Fashions from B. Altman & Company Fashions of the Roaring '20s Women's Wear of the 1920's: With Complete Patterns	Leaf-shape hat on pg 3 of The Illustrated Milliner Magazine of June 1923	1923
	1923	1923
	1924	Shoe of the 1920's in the Musee de la Mode et du Textile

Autoportrait 1925 Tamara de Lempicka Buy This Art Print At AllPosters.com Fashion Drawings and Illustrations from Harper's Bazar Erte's Fashion Designs : 218 Illustrations from Harper's Bazar, 1918-1932 Patterns of Fashion 2 : Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C.1860-1940	Beaded Dresses of the 1920's in the Musee de la Mode et du Textile

		Evening dress showing typical "Spanish" embroidered shawl, and huge ostrich feather fan, c. 1925
Bakst : The Art of Theater & Dance (Temporis Series)	a cover of Needlecraft Magazine from 1924	Design by Leon Bakst for Phedre and Theseus in 1923
Gowns by Adrian : The MGM Years 1928-1941	another theatre design by Bakst	two costumes for the ballet Joseph by Bakst

Great Fashion Designs of the Twenties Paper Dolls in Full Color Victorian to Vamp: Women's Clothing 1900-1929 Fortuny	c 1925	c 1925
	Black satin 1920's women's Shoes
	c1925 Ladies' Home Journal	c1925 Ladies' Home Journal

Ziegfeld Follies Paper Dolls in Full Color Costume in Detail : 1730-1930 The Cut of Women's Clothes, 1600-1930 Authentic French Fashions of the Twenties : 413 Costume Designs from L'Art Et LA Mode	1925	1925
	1925	1925
	1925	1925

Art in Dress (1922) Addressing the Century : 100 Years of Art & Fashion Video Fashion Flashbacks	1925	1925
	1925	1925

Jeeves & Wooster - The Complete First Season	The Cotton Club	Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado (1987)

	Dress worn by the society hostess known as "The Biltmore Girl" for the 1923 opening of The Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Silk satin with a painted design taken from the Italian Renaissance reproduction ceiling in the main ballroom.

Brideshead Revisited
	Henry & June	Miller's Crossing

Valentino A Passage to India Aelita - Queen of Mars (c. 1920-22 Soviet Russian dress, plus fantasy "Mars" dress in deco style)	1926 "Winter Sports Girl" in Max von Boehn's Modes and Manners of the 19th Century	Red and ecru silk dress with pleated skirt and chain stitch decoration. (Ecru rayon extension was added at a later date to lengthen the skirt)
	c1926 French Tailoring

Hollywood Dressed & Undressed : A Century of Cinema Style Michael Collins Hoodlum The Evolution of Fashion : Pattern and Cut from 1066 to 1930	c.1926	Art - Gout - Beaute 1926
	Art - Gout - Beaute 1926	Art - Gout - Beaute 1926
	Art - Gout - Beaute 1926	1926

Ribbon Embroidery : With 178 Iron-On Transfers Old-Fashioned Ribbon Trimmings and Flowers (Dover Craft Books) The Artful Ribbon : Beauties in Bloom	1926	1926
	Art - Gout - Beaute 1927	Art - Gout - Beaute 1927
	Art - Gout - Beaute 1927	Art - Gout - Beaute 1927

The Hat Book : Creating Hats for Every Occasion Classic Millinery Techniques : A Complete Guide to Making & Designing Today's Hats The Century of Hats : Headturning Style of the Twentieth Century	Needlecraft, 1927	Montgomery Ward's Catalog 1927
	1927	1927
	Sports fans 1927 from a Kuppenheimer ad provied by RaveOnline

Fashion Accessories: The Complete 20th Century Sourcebook The Female Economy : The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930 (Working Class in American History) Tigersprung: Fashion in Modernity	English Fashions, 1928	English Fashions, 1928
	English Fashions, 1928	English Fashions, 1928
	Design by Stowitts for an unrealized Opera: "Fay-you-fa" showing the quintessence of deco costume design of the 1920's	Wannamaker's catalog 1928

Beauty in Exile: The Artists, Models, and Nobility Who Fled the Russian Revolution and Influenced the World of Fashion Art Deco Jewelry Designs in Full Color (Dover Pictorial Archive) The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie : The Science and Aesthetics of Tie Knots	1928 ad	1928
	c. 1928 Cloche hats	c. 1928 Cloche hats
	c. 1928 Cloche hats	c. 1928 Cloche hats

The Victoria & Albert Museum's Textile Collection : British Textiles from 1900-1937 Costume Design in the Movies : An Illustrated Guide to the Work of 157 Great Designers Erte's Theatrical Costumes in Full Color	1928	1928
	Bernard-Hewitt & Co. Summer 1928 Apparel Sale Catalog
		1929

Women's Shoes in America, 1795-1930 Hairstyles and Fashion : A Hairdresser's History of Paris, 1910-1920 (Dress, Body, Culture) Portr du Marquis dAfflitto Tamara de Lempicka Buy This Art Print At AllPosters.com	1929	1929
	1929	Montgomery Ward's Catalog 1929

The Female Economy : The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930 (Working Class in American History) Haute Couture & Pret-A-Porter : Mode 1750-2000

	Everyday Fashions of the Twenties As Pictured in Sears and Other Catalogs	Victorian to Vamp: Women's Clothing 1900-1929

Pattern Designing for Dressmakers Women's Wear of the 1920's: With Complete Patterns Great Fashion Designs of the Twenties Paper Dolls in Full Color

	Royal Tailors Catalog of 1920	1920's Fashion Links

French Fashions 'of Good Taste' 1920-1922: From Pochoir Illustrations (Schiffer Design Book)	Cubism and Fashion	French Art Deco Fashions: In Pochoir Prints from the 1920s (Schiffer Design Book)


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