Flapper
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The 1920s woman who made the body's liberation visible in a straight silhouette, a short hem and bobbed hair, wearing the same period spirit that Art Deco gave to geometry.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Straight shift dresses
- Bobbed hair
- Dropped waists
- Beads and fringe
Best used for
- A dress made for dancing that hangs from the shoulder, not the waist
- Naming the mood of a short decade through one silhouette
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Geometric capitals used as another decorative band, never as a slogan
- Composition
- Erase the difference between bust and hip and let the hem carry motion
- Material
- Light silk, beadwork, fringe, with the weight gathered at the hem
- Caution
- Adding fringe over a nipped waist destroys the straight line the whole idea rests on and leaves a costume that merely signals the decade.
- Further study
- Chanel's straight line / the Jazz Age / the moga (modern girl) as contemporary
Related entries
- Art Deco (アール・デコ)Shared effects: Exhilaration.Compare Flapper and Art Deco
- Rational Dress (合理服運動)Same Fashion History lineage.Compare Flapper and Rational Dress
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