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Flappers with sleek bobs, cupid blow lips, long strings of pearls and lots and lots of sass, the roaring twenties were the place to be!

Louise Brooks: From Dancer to Showgirl to Scandalous Flapper Icon

Louise Brooks with her sharply bobbed hair is one of the most iconic figures of 1920s cinema and epitomized the

One of three sisters, Norma Talmadge was one of the most popular actresses of silent movies in the 1920s. She

The airship industry effectively died with the Hindenburg disaster of 1937, but for 80 or so years previously the dream

I stumbled across this photograph this morning and I’m ghoulishly intrigued by it. The only information I have about it

More and more smokers are becoming social pariahs. They have to stand on the street in the rain outside restaurants,

What better way to start off the new year by seeing how they celebrated in years gone by! These are

1928 was an interesting turning point in 1920s fashion. The boyish figure of the mid 1920s was starting to become

The forecast heatwave seems to have arrived in full force today and it’s far too hot to actually dance, so

I love the idea of collating images which give a real flavour of what a place was like at a

I should probably point out that this might not be suitable for viewing at work. It’s not terribly risque, but

The Hays Code was introduced in 1930 to regulate the morals of the US motion picture industry and influenced film

How did women go from the straight laced Edwardian era to free and easy fashions of 1920s flapper in just

I don’t profess to be any kind of historical costume expert, but I do have an interest in vintage fashions

Olga Spessivtseva was one of the foremost Russian ballerinas of the early 20th Century. She traveled the world to rave

Even if you’re not a silent movie buff you’ve probably heard of ‘America’s Sweetheart‘ Mary Pickford. Here are some interesting

Pin up girls have been around for a lot longer than you think. Since as early as the 1890s girls

Miss Fernande was arguably the very first photographic pin up star. Born during the 1890s in Paris, the lovely Fernande

John Gilbert ‘The Great Lover’ was one of the few stars of the silent movie era who could rival Rudolph

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