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| Me at Hearst Castle, 2019 |
When I started this blog in 2019, I was in my senior year of high school. I had been accepted to attend Temple University in the fall, and was planning a cross-country road trip for the upcoming summer. I had the arrogance and ambition that only an overly-romantic 18 year old coming off of a mental breakdown could possess.
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| Sally, Irene and Mary 1925 |
In the era of fast fashion, it's easy to feel far removed from the trends of the past. But we have a lot in common with the style priorities of the 1920s, when women began to explore more revealing, androgynous, and comfortable clothing for the first time. Flapper fashion, the most shocking and new style of the time, is what tends to stick out at people when they look back at the roaring 20s. However, flappers weren't commonplace or widely accepted by any means. As iconic as they were, there were a lot of trends beyond beaded fringe embraced by the modernist "New Woman" that we can take inspo from in 2021.
Looking back on style eras, it's always important to have a sense of perspective about the negative cultural aspects of the time, keeping in mind that we must always prioritize vintage style, and not vintage values.