This Flapper’s Dollhouse Cost More than Most People’s Homes

Of her most famous film, Jazz Age icon F. Scott Fitzgerald proclaimed, “I was the spark that lit up Flaming Youth, Colleen Moore was the torch.” She was a chief rival of Clara Bow and became one of the highest-paid and most fashionable movie stars in 1920s Hollywood. Colleen Moore had two passions: movies and dolls. Over…

The Peculiar Flapper Fad of Rouged and Decorated Knees

The infamous nightclub singer and vaudevillian, Velma Kelly, opens the musical Chicago in a sleek bob haircut, slinky black dress and all the glamour and sin of the swinging 1920s. She’s going to “paint the town”, play fast and loose… and “rouge her knees and roll her stockings down”? The last line might seem nonsensical…

America’s “Best Dressed Woman”, the Original Flapper who got the World Dancing Again

You might not know her name, but a century ago, Irene Castle was the household name at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Historians consider her to be the first original flapper but in her lifetime, Irene wore many hats: dancer, model, actress, animal activist, and fashion trendsetter. She left an enormous influence on American…

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Forgotten Art Deco Marvels of a Lost 1920s Copacabana Magazine

Little information has survived about Brazil’s Para Todos magazine. I couldn’t actually find what date or why it ever went out of print. I do know that it was created in 1918 with a focus on movie stars, and in 1922 until 1930, it came under the direction of José Carlos, a cartoonist, illustrator and major talent in Brazilian Art…

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The Bohemian King of 1920s Paris You’ve Never Heard Of

The life of Tsuguharu Foujita reads like a long lost Wes Anderson movie — and looks like one, too. The expat artist arrived in Paris from Japan in the 1920s, and with his prim bowl cut, button-ups, tiny spectacles (and curious passion for cats), his eccentricity made him the crème de la crème of the Montparnasse bohemians. Let us retrace…

The Babes of Sydney’s Criminal Past

Femme Fatales and Devious Divas were the ruling forces of Sydney’s underbelly during the 1920’s. These convicted ladies knew how to get into trouble in the most fashionable ways possible. Posing for their mug shots, they came dressed to the nines in furs, pearls, stylish hats and sassy drop-waist frocks. Even if they were being…

This Flapper’s Dollhouse Cost More than Most People’s Homes

The Peculiar Flapper Fad of Rouged and Decorated Knees

America’s “Best Dressed Woman”, the Original Flapper who got the World Dancing Again

Forgotten Art Deco Marvels of a Lost 1920s Copacabana Magazine

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The Bohemian King of 1920s Paris You’ve Never Heard Of

The Babes of Sydney’s Criminal Past

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