Roaring 20s photos

A young lady photographed in New York City, 1925.

It wasn’t just speakeasies, everyone had clever ways to get their booze during Prohibition. Check these out: http://www.ancientfaces.com/article/those-lazy-hazy-crazy-days-of-prohibition/32?tid=pin16.03.31

A throwback to all that was beautiful and decadent about the jazz era.

Nope. Hi All! This week on Fashion History with American Duchess we speak with the amazing Zoë Beery, a writer for Racked, about her article on how flappers didn't wear fringed dresses (at least not the ones that we all think of today as

The Roaring Twenties was a period of economic prosperity and social, artistic, and cultural opulence which occurred in the wake of World War 1. The Roaring Twenties witnessed large-scale development of technologies such as the automobile, telephone, movies, and radio. The Roaring Twenties saw the rise of jazz, the blues,…

Checker taxi cabs on 34th Street. I found Dad's diary and he wrote on August 16, 1938: “We swung across town and in a bit were on the Henry Hudson highway leading south. And believe it or not, first thing you know we were once again at the Hotel New Yorker. On the way down, we had a thrill as we passed by a huge ocean liner, all lit up, as it lay at the dock. It was the Normandie.”

Woman looking in mirror

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