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1920’s Style Tips to Steal!

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Carly Jacobs

* Match the colour of your handbag to your shoes and belt. How quaint.

* Wear Chanel No. 5 – the signature fragrance of Marilyn Monroe created in 1921. She wore it to bed… and nothing else.

* Drink whisky with ice and paint your fingernails and lips blood red.

* Wear as many bangles that will fit on your wrist and carry a clutch bag. A delicious beaded one with nothing more than a lipstick inside.

* Wear lingerie in gelati colours with little fruity garters.

* Discover Egypt. Tutankhamen was the subject of fashion fascination and his head adorned many a clutch bag in the 20’s.

* Use rouge.

* Buy your man a cape and have him wrap it around you on chilly street light-lit nights.

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

7 Comments

Lady Smaggle 16 years ago

Na – Oh shit yes. I love the one with the bangles. This woman is now my idol! Who is she?

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Cupcake 16 years ago

Another lovely post!
But i was wondering about the little hat/cap thingy in the first picture;
what are they and where can i get one! i see them in lots of old photos and think they are gorgeous, would like one for winter as they are a lot less ugly/bulky then beanies heehee.

x o x

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princessnaea 16 years ago

Nancy Cunard! Nancy Cunard! o how I wish I could post a picture of her.

arrgk!

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/04/01/books/01webe3.html

http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/sd224/Classes/WomenandModernsim/Reports/Cunard_files/image001.jpg

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Lady Smaggle 16 years ago

OH MY GOD!!! This woman is a GENIUS!!!
I love a girl who loves her bangles…

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princessnaea 16 years ago

Heiress to the Cunard family (they made money from shipping and railways I think), socialite and socialist, she edited the Left Review for a while before going into publishing, where she was one of the first to publish – get this – Beckett.
She was totallly rad and awesome. She also banged the most amazing array of modernists – TS Eliot, Tristan Tzara, Wyndham Lewis… the girl was red hot. I love her.

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reckless daughter 14 years ago

I adore the 20s! great post, lady.

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