What Flappers Stood For
(Flapper Magazine, 1922)
Here is a page listing everything that the Flappers adored and found worth getting up in the morning to pursue.
Fashion
The Beginning of the End
(Collier’s Magazine, 1941)
This article heralds the slippery slope in men’s fashion. Our’s is the era in which it is not odd to see billion-dollar businesses being run by men in flipflops and gym shorts – this is a far cry from how their grandfathers would have dressed were they in the same position. The well-respected fashion journalist (Henry L. Jackson, 1911 – 1948: co-founder of Esquire)
opined in this article that it was suitable for men to cease wearing the darker hues to the office and wear country tweeds; next stop – flipflops.
Fashion Notes from London
(Vanity Fair Magazine, 1923)
Written in a prose style reminiscent of an owner’s manual, these pages spell out the 1923 tailoring rules for men’s formalwear:
“Essentially traditionalist in matter of men’s clothes, London is never more
conservative than in dress clothes, and the changes from year to year are of the slightest… However, one still sees far more dinner jackets (ie. “tuxedos“) in restaurants than of yore, when black tie and short coat were for the home circle and the club alone, but in society, whether for small dance, ball, dinner or theatre party, the white tie is the rule.”
April is the Cruelest Month
(Vanity Fair Magazine, 1923)
“With the double-breasted coat, the single-breasted waistcoat is the rule and to repeat the crossing of lines twice in one suit is an entirely unreasonable exaggeration.”
Skirt Length: High or Low?
(Vanity Fair Magazine, 1923)
“The important question of the proper length of dress skirts is again racking the public press and putting a large part of our female population completely off their feed.”
Stockings for Movie Stars
$2,500.00 stockings, anyone? (in today’s currency, that would be $41,519.00) This is the story of Hollywood’s go-to-guy for outrageously priced,
Pants for Women Become a Thing
The battle over pants for women had been going on long before this article came to press. Keeping in mind
The Mad Plaid of 1940
(Collier’s Magazine, 1940)
Fashion writer Henry Jackson had a few words to say concerning the importance of Glen Plaid in men’s fashions during the Fall of 1940.
The Well Dressed Man Confronts Bad Taste
(Vanity Fair Magazine, 1918)
On page one of this three page guide, you will find some essential notes and illustrations from the editors of Vanity Fair regarding the good taste of 1918 (as well as the simply awful).