Jazz Age Dress

Jazz age dress in the Museu Nacional do Traje e da Moda (National Museum of Dress and Fashion,) Portugal.

Scanned from the book "Grandes Museus de Portugal," Editorial Presença.

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Alfred Cheney Johnston

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Jazz Age Dress by Sonia Delaunay, 1920, 1928

Tafeta dress in printed silk by Sonia Delaunay, 1920, 1928.

In the Museu Nacional do Traje e da Moda (National Museum of Dress and Fashion,) Portugal.

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Dancers from the musical play The Dairymaids, 1906

"Dancers from a musical play The Dairymaids (1906) demonstrate the fashionable S-bend shape, which was achieved by lacing women into metal or whalebone corsets.

Pads placed on the hips and under the arms were used to emphasise a small, curved waist."

Scanned from "Decades of Fashion" by Harriet Worsley.

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Horst P. Horst, Cartier's "Diamants Mystérieux," 1934

Horst P. Horst, model wearing Cartier's "Diamants Mystérieux." British Vogue, September 1934.

Scanned from "Art Deco 1910-1939" edited by Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton and Chislaine Wood.

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