The Gentleman Aunt

The sharp edge of an era

Images: Passing Fashions: Reading Female Masculinities in the 1920s

Image 1: Eine Frau modelt Jeanne Lanvins Version des Garçonne-Looks, 1925. Image 2: Jane Heap, photographed in Paris by Berenice Abbott, 1927. Image 3: “Garçonnes,” 1922. Paris, Palais Galliera–musée de la Mode; found on the Van Cleef & Arpels Collection.

Image 1: February 1925: British actress of stage and screen Edna Best (1900 - 1974) as Fay Collen in the play 'Spring Cleaning' at St Martins Theatre in London. Image 2: Edna Best by Dorothy Wilding, c. 1925.

Image 1 and 2: Le Grand Tailleur, No. 181 and 184; both 1926.

Image 1: Postcard of German film actress Elga Brink, c. mid-to-late 1920s. Image 2: Cover of Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, No. 46, 13 November 1927; found in Women in the Weimar Republic by Helen Boak, pg. 270. Image 3: Publicity shot of German actress Ruth Landshoff in Das Leben; November 1929.

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