1930 style

I absolutely love 1930s fashion. At first I thought it would never look good on my short and curvy frame because all the fashion images from the decade feature very tall and narrow silhouettes (the hand-drawn images were not realistically proportionate in the least). After giving a few 30s outfits a try, especially mixing separates,

Starting in the mid 1920s, women's separates (skirts and blouses) lost favor to the one piece dress. This continued into the early 1930s, until the tides changed once again and women found the mix-and-match convenience of 1930s blouses and skirts both economical and pretty. Blouse styles were overly fussy, reflecting the Victorian era with ruffles,

Here are some summer dress fashions from the 1935 Chicago Mail Order Catalog, including two full color pages. These old fashion catalog scans are lovely illustrations of the 1930s silhouette and dress lines. I scanned the whole layout, too, so you can get the full effect of the illustrations. "Look as sweet as you

Exploring how to get a 1930s look on a budget by looking at the 1930s retrospective trend during the 1970s, inspired by Hollywood films

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