Edmonton businesses embrace 1920s fashion clamshell

       glamor, excess, freedom, pleasure - what's not to love about the picture

1920s depicted in popular culture of the late, especially in the fashion?

The Great Gatsby movie coming out, and popular television shows like Boardwalk Empire are often

complete with examples of luxurious styles of the time, with fur, feathers, develop

Beading, silk and velvet.

"It's a fantasy of excess," said Angela Larson, the classic Swish Edmonton has

'S Manulife Place, where the customers are of particular interest in crazy years

delay.

"I think a lot of girls have this fantasy drink champagne and how

carefree lifestyle. It was after the war, the festival, the entire surplus. "

Patterns reflect the changing times, women the vote in the United

States, work in offices rid of both their corsets and skirts

and short hair.

Although most familiar way of time is probably the flapper style short, with fringe

or beaded dresses and bobbed hair, "the 20 have so many different looks," says Larson.

"They had the kimono-style, because everything was so exotic Asian. It was all silk

and imported fabric. It would be the spoiler style that was quite glamorous with

all the beading. Then it would be the dress style of the place - almost like a tennis court

Dress with a drop size, very, very androgynous short hair. "

Women wear as long, gliding style dresses, wrinkles appear and patterns art deco caps

with beads and feathers, and a lot of fur.

Many of the features of the 1920s fashion styles are added modern and reinterpreted

Buyers today, Janis Galloway said, a local fashion blogger.

Galloway should know. She called the fashion shoot for the Feast of the refinery come to the

Art Gallery of Alberta, around the Rip Roarin 'Twenties theme. (Tickets for June 1

Party goes on sale 22 Of May for those who are not members AGM).

The theme of fashion complements the new exhibition at the gallery opening on 25 May called The Piano,

with the avant-garde, experimental art, with pianos.

"There was a time when people really experiment and try new things," she said. The

the piano is reminiscent of the Jazz Age and illegal, so prevalent at the time of

Prohibition in the United States in the 1920s, she added.

While Galloway used authentic 1920 chic accessories for the fashion shoot, they also

contemporary used clothing Simons, which was similar in style and feeling at the time. "It is

s easy to find pieces - all wore helmets and social dresses, tons of metal

and wrinkles, it's crazy. "

She said that the main feature of the period was the silhouettes with loose, draped, easy to

wear forms, whether short or long fringes, maxi dresses.

"I'm a fan of maxi dresses with long chains. I love this look," says

Galloway. "I think it is so elegant and chic, and everyone can wear it. This is my

Favorite - and of course all the accessories. "

Followers of contemporary fashion are more adventurous with accessories like head

Body parts and ornaments as necklaces brings us back to the '20s, she says.

For men, the 20's an easy time to embrace with bow tie and handkerchief, she said.

"This is a chance to dress up a little, especially for men."

Much of the 1920s fashion inspiration that we see now are much more a modern interpretation

the decade, Larson said. 1974 film version of The Great Gatsby with Robert Redford and

Mia Farrow, for example, had an air of 1970 its 20 years of fashion, she said.

The current version of the film features costumes Muiccia Prada, "it will

2013 Prada to look for it. This is all assuming the 20s decade, "she added.