Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel Credited to be the most influential designer of the 20s, Chanel helped pave the way for more comfortable women's wear. She changed the silhouette to a more relaxed, loose-fitting fashion, and innovated women's suits and jackets. She's famous for the little black dress, costume jewelry, and branding her own perfume. She's also credited for doing away with the corset.
I just had to do one more headshot of her. Because she's perfect.
Yet another classic female blues singer that was popular in the 20s. In 1923, she toured with the Black Swan Troubadours and performed in New York City.
Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel Credited to be the most influential designer of the 20s, Chanel helped pave the way for more comfortable women's wear. She changed the silhouette to a more relaxed, loose-fitting fashion, and innovated women's suits and jackets. She's famous for the little black dress, costume jewelry, and branding her own perfume. She's also credited for doing away with the corset.
Fabrics iconic to this golden era were cotton, wool, silk, georgette, rayon, linen, and knits.
Typically, solid colors were used more frequently than prints. However, prints were used most commonly in skirts, children’s clothes, and lingerie. Popular prints were stripes, dots, geometrics, simple floral patterns, or plaid. Men typically wore plaid.
Popular colors consisted of muted or pastel colors. Black was also fashionable (thank you Chanel) and no longer seen as a color of mourning. Prints were used with complimentary colors or highly contrasting colors.
Popular trims of the decade were beads, georgette (a sheer fabric), embroidery, and ribbons.
For a more fascinating explanation of popular textiles of the time, check out Debbie Session’s post here.
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