Color for Flappers: 1928 Color Harmony

How was color theory, or harmony used in vintage fashion? During the flapper era in 1928, this charming booklet was published to show women...

1920s Flapper: Face powder & Traveling in Style

Flapper on vacation! Traveling this month? This mid-1920's advertisement for face powder captures the luxury of travel on the great ocea...

Hey there! We're back from our road trip with a trunk of goodies to sort and list in the shop this weekend. It was refreshing (cool rai...

Sally takes a Ride: c. 1923

This is my grandmother, Sally Nye in about 1922 or 23. Around this time she left Kearney, Nebraska for the wilds of Los Angeles and the Uni...

1926 Nice

1926: Lorenzi Poster Art Deco promenade fashions at their best. Summer brights in blue and red, even a white fur to catch the off shore bre...

Best of: Art Deco Flapper Coats

During the 1920's, women's lives changed for ever. This was the "Roaring Twenties" and Flappers were sporting easy to wea...

Flapper Blouses: 1920's Fashion

The 1920's flapper wore a dropped waistline that inspired a new type of blouse silhouette. This look was the first of its kind. Worn u...

Designer Fashions: 1929 Flapper Dresses

Designer collections for the summer of 1929 Left- Lecomte, a pale green with side sash Right-Maggy Rouff, beige tweed with white pique colla...

On the Street: 1929 Fashionable Flappers

You might think that current fashion bloggers invented 'street fashion' photos, but that's not so. These four photos were taken...

History of California's Fashion Industry: Part 1

The 1920’s is a good place to begin a brief look into the California apparel industry. The decade began with a new but strong apparel busin...

Flappers on Film: Vintage Kodak footage in Color

Flappers, the wild and young generation of the 1920's are back with us once more. Captured by the medium of colored film, several actre...

House Dresses: Fashion at home, cottony and cute

A stepchild of fashion, the humble house dress has been worn in one form or another for centuries. When women's fashionable gowns were s...

1920's Flappers, Art Deco Coats and Erte

During the 1920's, women's lives changed for ever. This was the "Roaring Twenties" and Flappers were sporting easy to wea...

Gangsters from the 1930's

Movies have always inspired fashion girls, and this suit is no exception. Even though "Bonnie and Clyde" would have been a few yea...