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candy lips
current fav style inspos?? 💕🎀🪽
I love all fashion from like ancient Greece until the 70s lol, especially obsessed w rococo, Victorian, 1910s, 30s, 20s and 60s ill also forever defend regency era dresses w my life, I dont get the hate...
♡ I love Clara Bows and Anna Karinas style
I love coats and anything polkadot and plaid ♡
I also love 20s/30s hats and shoes
and for hair, I like short 20s hairstyles w volume
I think my style is very girly and dolly. I prefer to wear dresses. I kinda hate pants, but at school, I always wear jeans w the biggest 70s flair possible I can find, and i have soo many hair accessories, but the most important thing to me is lipstick and nailpolish I feel naked w out them 😭
I hope I answered ur question correctly, I mostly take inspo from eras rather than aesthetics or people, I also just wear whatever I think is cute it dosnt need to be 60s or 20s or whatever it just needs to be cute, cheap and my size lol
also my fav colour combos:
brown w blue, brown w pink, purple and red, light green w red or pink, off white cream w brown or black, yellow w pink, green w red
clara wearing 70s esque fashion before it existed 𐙚
(2nd pic obv)
Happy birthday to the og it girl, the most sweet and unique starlet and biggest icon of the roaring 20s ୨ৎ
real 💋
I wanted to do something very "fashionable", so imagine the Bermuda trio organizing an event to show off and splurge (completely out of character for Lin and Izumi, so let's assume Kya forced them somehow)
I’m absolutely keeping this for reference since I have an entire world set in the 1920’s that I can always use more references for
I’m so sorry if you’ve already answered this somewhere, but how do you design your characters?
I’ve been trying to make an OC from the prohibition era and it turns out there’s basically nothing to work with for men’s outfits, so I’m curious how you made this many that look unique and fitting to the characters
There is so much to work with, though! You will tend to find more of a focus on variety in women's fashion, but there is still quite a lot of menswear to ogle too. I suppose it's just a matter of searching out ideas and inspiration in the rights corners. Here are a few suggestions:
Old Clothing Catalogues -
Collections from Sears-Roebuck and other popular clothing retailers are pretty easy to find compiled into relatively inexpensive books, or just floating online.
A fair bit of it is in the public domain now.
--Here's an entire 1922 catalogue of stuff to flip through.
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Contemporary Artwork -
Some phenomenal illustrators were working in this field amidst the "Golden Age of Illustration" and featured prominently on the covers of magazines and on the ads inside. There was a lot of emphasis on fashion.
Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post are a couple of the more prominent and easily searchable resources. The costuming on the cover art always has a lot of personality.
There's Rockwell, of course, and it's almost impossible to go wrong with J. C. Leyendecker. He's probably best known for his Arrow Collar ad art, but even his sock ads are like…
There were numerous other amazing and influential illustrators working at the time too. Here's a list of some of them. Here's a bonus Henry Raleigh featuring some of his fabulously-dressed people.
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Blogs and Articles -
There are so many of them! If you want historical accuracy, be wary of write-ups pulling all of their references from film and television. There's nothing wrong with using those for inspiration if you aren't too concerned with historicity, but there are some pretty comprehensive and well-researched things out there with more of an eye on actual fashion history too:
--Gentleman's Gazette - What Men Really Wore in the 1920s
--The Fashionisto - 1920s Men's Fashion
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Digital Collections -
There are numerous digital historic image collections stemming from universities, museums, libraries, and the government that are free to peruse too.
--The Metropolitan Museum has a searchable catalog of exhibits that includes fashion and photos
--Here's some things from the New York Public Library
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Photos at Large -
If you aren't sure where to start, image searching for any of Hollywood's early celebrities will typically turn up a bevy of production stills and promotional photography featuring a variety of fashions. Here's a random Getty images search for Harold Lloyd. A lot of standard 3 piece suits, but a lot of stuff with added character too.
Photography was generally quite accessible by the 1920s, though, and you can find a lot of authentic photos of people from all walks of life, out in the wild wearing all sorts of clothes.
This is by no means the limit to the resources available, but hopefully it'll provide some leaping-off points for designing looks for your characters!
Evening dress of black silk voile trimmed with silver-colored beads in an Art Deco style. Date: 1920s.
Modemuseum Hasselt via Europeana Fashion
Halloween Costumes in Dennison’s Bogie Book, 1922
I'm feeling some vintage Halloween 🎃 vibes today
Ms Emily Girard
legit the barbie of her time
💟🎀💟🎀💟🎀💟🎀💟🎀💟🎀💟🎀💟🎀
consider this my front cover for my ocs
Ms Boggins
she's the wife of Henris and is very beautiful and 🥰🥰.
I started drawing the Ever After High girls in random historical fashion eras… why? I have no idea
Raven Queen in 1890s, Apple White in Italian Renaissance.
Briar Beauty in 1920s, Madeline Hatter in 1880s
No particularly reason for the eras, just the vibe I get from the characters and their designs!
Dress
about 1923
Gisella Gown Shop
Newfields
I’m back to it
Étoile. Oc.