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    Dress the 1920s: From Flapper Chic to The Great Gatsby
    Dress the 1920s: From Flapper Chic to The Great Gatsby
    Dress the 1920s: From Flapper Chic to The Great Gatsby
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    Dress the 1920s: From Flapper Chic to The Great Gatsby

    By Julie Burns

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    "In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different" - Coco Chanel

    Do you crave The Great Gatsby look? Want to know more about Flapper Girls, get the bobbed hair of Louise Brooks, or indulge in the timeless style of Coco Chanel and Molyneux? With the resurgence of interest in all things ‘20s, here comes a timely style title on ‘20s inspired dressing – with an intriguing difference!

    Dress the 1920s: From Flapper Chic to The Great Gatsby is an inspired and quirky combination of vintage guide and self-makeover manual. It spans social history highlights to ‘20s image and fashion instruction, and is packed with tips from sourcing and shopping to styling and storing. It all adds up to a fun and focused must-have for all style and culture lovers.

    From the continuing global success of period productions like The Great Gatsby, Downton Abbey and Boardwalk Empire, the remarkable style of the Roaring ‘20s enjoys resonance today. A time of romance and decadence in the aftermath of the First World War, the era was also one of great social and stylistic change, in which female dressing expressed women’s emerging emancipation. A world away from constricting Victorian corsetry, long hair and skirts, along with her new lifestyle of working, driving, smoking and dancing, the typical ‘20s flapper shockingly bobbed her hair and raised her hemline.

    With today’s worldwide interest in vintage in mind, vintage aficionado, writer and stylist Julie Burns, has created the first in a series of decade dedicated dressing guides - guides that are both accessible and informed in approach. As invaluable for the vintage virgin as for the purist; the serious collector and the dabbler; the fashionista to the student on a shoestring, and those in search of alternative yet timeless style, it ticks all today’s boxes for practical advice on budget-friendly, investment dressing that’s eco-conscious yet exclusive, and as individual as you are.
    Read the book and get that 1920s look!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBennion Kearny
    Release dateMay 14, 2013
    ISBN9781909125339
    Dress the 1920s: From Flapper Chic to The Great Gatsby

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      Dress the 1920s - Julie Burns

      Dress the 1920s: From Flapper Chic to The Great Gatsby

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      by Julie Burns

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      Published in 2013 by Bennion Kearny Limited.

      Copyright © Bennion Kearny Ltd 2013

      Julie Burns has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 to be identified as the author of this book.

      ISBN: 9781909125339

      All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.

      This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that it which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      Bennion Kearny has endeavoured to provide trademark information about all the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Bennion Kearny cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information.

      Published by Bennion Kearny Limited

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      Cover image: © Vgorbash | Dreamstime.com

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      About the Author

      Julie Burns is a cross-media style and lifestyle, arts and culture writer and stylist, with specialism in, and passion for, vintage fashion. Within broadcasting, she has variously worked as style researcher and vintage consultant on BBC TV shows, and produced live style items for Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. She has appeared in, and provided costuming for, well-known period film productions; styled magazine makeovers and private clients from mainstream to vintage style; and collects and sells vintage to auctions and interested buyers. In addition, she has lectured on the subject, is an accomplished vintage style dancer, and dresses in vintage glamour whenever possible!

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      Table of Contents

      About this Book

      THE ‘20S – FUN, FREEDOM & FLAPPERS

      Fashionable Happenings of the decade

      Twenties Trendsetters

      VISION ON

      20s Chic Checklist

      THE ART OF VINTAGE SHOPPING – made simple!

      GET THE SILHOUETTE

      THE FINAL FLOURISH

      WARDROBE MISTRESS – Cleaning, storing & caring for vintage clothes

      STYLISH STOCKISTS, sassy contacts

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      About this Book

      This ebook is part of a much bigger project that looks to provide style and vintage dressing instructions for the 1920s through to the 1960s. Each decade is being released as an eBook with a final print book being made available (with all decades included) once the 1960s section is completed. Stay tuned on the Bennion Kearny website for more information.

      The Twenties – Trending Today

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