Flapper dress

Dresses

Tomboy silhouette
The flapper style originated in 1920s America, at the time of Prohibition. Women free themselves from their uncomfortable long dresses and painful corsets. They smoke, cut their hair short and fit themselves into a masculine silhouette: loose shirt dresses with a low waist, sometimes even wearing an elastic band underneath to flatten the torso. Despite this tomboy silhouette, the flapper dresses with their many beads, fringes, feathers, sequins and art deco ornaments are the epitome of elegance! In this graceful dress, a new generation of confident women dance the defiant Charleston.

See also our Roaring Twenties board on Pinterest!

Image: © Bannou

 

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