VIDEO: 1920s fashion

The 20s: boas, headbands and more

Women's fashion in the roaring twenties could be very exciting.

• Anyone who went out as a woman in the 1920s often wore a so-called pot hat, which from today's perspective, however, looks rather less exciting. The hat owes its name to the fact that it had a pot-like shape with - if at all - at most an implied brim. Stars as well as ordinary housewives have worn this hat.
• In Charlestona dress on the other hand, the normal housewife did not take to the streets. The dress owes its name to the ballroom dance of the same name, which was performed in the 1920s USA came into fashion and was again named after the city of Charleston in the US state of South Carolina became. In Europe, the very fast and for the time very provocative dance is inextricably linked with Josephine Baker. The typical Charleston dress was a short dress, often with a fringe on the skirt hem. If you want to put together a wardrobe according to the fashion of the twenties, you are not wrong with a Charleston dress. These are available to buy
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  dresses in many shops and especially on the Internet, as they are still very popular for various events.
• You have to complement your Charleston dress with silk stockings and the bob haired head is almost a must, although it can of course also be a wig. Headbands were also very popular with bob hairs, and if they were clothing Should be particularly noticeable, the stars and self-confident women of the 1920s also wore a feather boa. The ladies were particularly provocative when they also held an extra long cigarette holder with a cigarette in their hands. In case you are a smoker, this accessory gives yours Outfit that special touch, even if it might get cold in the hanging dress on the street.

The fashion of men in their twenties

Men's fashion also had a lot to offer in the twenties.

• If you want to go to a 20s event dressed elegantly as a man, get in touch Stresemann Well. This one named after the Chancellor Stresemann men's suit from striped trousers, white shirt, black single-breasted jacket, silver-gray tie and gray waistcoat, was very popular in the twenties. Ideally, you have to wear black patent leather shoes and the hair comb backwards strictly.
• If, on the other hand, it is to be casual, knickers and flat caps are indispensable. Knickerbockers look like wide-cut knee breeches and owe their name to a satire of Writer Washington Irving from 1809, in which the main character was named Jansen Knickerbocker wearing. Irving also chose this name as a pseudonym for the publication of the book. Because it was about the first settlers in New York who came from Amsterdam and just those pants Wore, went, the trousers, which had been invented much earlier, but became very popular again in the twenties, were later given the name Knickerbocker. With a matching flat cap on your head, you will look really 20s-like in it.
• Both the Knickerbocker and the Stresemann are still available for purchase. Knickerbockers are very popular with some golfers, and some grooms still like to wear the Stresemann today.

With the fashion of the twenties, a wardrobe can still be put together well.