1920s Designer Fashions
by
Priscilla Haug
A comparison of 1920s fashion prints with period photographs provide a
realistic look at 1920s designer fashions.
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Many 1920s
magazines provided colorful images of the latest
fashions for women. Some magazines, such as
Gazette du Bon Ton, catered exclusively to
the “rich and famous.” This French publication
provided exquisite fashion plates created by
modern artists such as Paul Iribe, George Lepape,
Georges Barbier, Charles Martin and others.
Marketed towards privileged Paris shoppers,
prints of exclusive and trend-setting fashions
appeared in limited editions. Many designs were
romanticized leisure scenes of the well-to-do,
illustrating the latest creations of Paris
fashion houses such as Worth, Lanvin, Doucet,
Poiret, Callot Soeurs, Paquin and Beers.
With a collection
of color prints from Gazette du Bon Ton
and an assortment of period photographs from the
Library of Congress, we can compare the
idealistic sketches of the fashion designer and
the actual visualization of his work on a paying
customer. Some designs appeared as magnificent
recreations of the hand-colored prints, while
others emerged as an incongruous masquerade
costume. Many were worn by women of wealth,
who, although they could afford the couture
ensemble, sadly their size and appearance did
not do the design justice. |
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Gazette
du Bon Ton, 1923 |
Library
of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, George
Grantham Bain Collection |
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Gazette
du Bon Ton, 1924 |
Library
of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, George
Grantham Bain Collection |
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Gazette
du Bon Ton, 1922 |
Library
of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, George
Grantham Bain Collection |
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Gazette
du Bon Ton, 1922 |
Library
of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, George
Grantham Bain Collection |
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Gazette
du Bon Ton, 1921 |
Library
of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, George
Grantham Bain Collection |
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Gazette
du Bon Ton, 1922 |
Library
of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, George
Grantham Bain Collection |
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Gazette
du Bon Ton, 1924 |
Library
of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, George
Grantham Bain Collection |
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Gazette
du Bon Ton, 1922 |
Library
of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, George
Grantham Bain Collection |
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Gazette
du Bon Ton, 1923 |
Library
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Grantham Bain Collection |
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Gazette
du Bon Ton, 1920 |
Library
of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, George
Grantham Bain Collection |
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Gazette
du Bon Ton, 1924 |
Library
of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, George
Grantham Bain Collection |
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CREDITS:
Fashion Prints:
Gazette du Bon Ton
Photographs: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs
Division |
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