Vintage Hairstyles

Some of us can only think and try to reflect of what things must have been like in the 1920’s and a stylish flapper looked like. We've seen pictures and movies, but how much does that really tell you? Well, think of our modern day Betty Boop with boyish hips wearing a sack dress and a flat chest and there you’ve got it! In the twenties it was the process of elimination and the chest had to go, so big busted ladies would bandage themselves until they were flat! Can you imagine how the seasoned and more mature looks of the earlier Edwardian time had with all this freedom their granddaughters had and how they must have felt with their voluptuous figures at that time? “I’m so jealous of you, you have less than me and I have too much!” A far cry from today! If you had a boyish look with no chest or hips, you’d fit right in. Most were handy at the sewing machine and many women found it easy to sew their shift type of frock at home. Considering that WW1 was going on at the time, only the rich could wear clothes with lush threads. They were dancing to the craze of the Charleston that went right along with the short dresses and raccoon skin coats and the jalopy’s the college crowd would travel in. Hollywood portrays the twenties as part of speakeasy’s, prohibition, moonshine and gangsters driving by shooting other gangsters and all that had a part of that time, along with the daring haircut! Most women wouldn’t think of cutting their hair as this was their crowning glory.