Grey pinstriped or dark charcoal blazer can also work well with a blackish dress.
Take a sophisticated, monochromatic look with a cropped grey blazer and grey pumps.
Ditch the blazer and choose a fitted cardigan instead, I’d say if you look for a softer look. Did you know that an interview, a school presentation or a recital, pair it with a blazer, when you seek for to make your strapless grey sheath dress look polished for work. Whenever playing lawn games, white is very easy to get dirty, especially outside.
This was often the task of a house servant in wealthier households.
Fabrics that were very light and sheer similar to cotton, silk, organdy or linen with open weave lace or eyelets allowed even more cool air to flow in. Winter fabrics were crepe,light wool, taffeta,or velvet. Clothing required frequent laundering to keep its pure white color. Middle classes a solitary Black owned dress rental company in the country.
The Frock Shop was born, with the dresses from my closet and the support of amazing family and friends.
I decided that if men could rent tuxedos, women could rent dresses.
These dresses had only been worn once and were still in great condition. Founded by Jennifer Gist Burrell in 2011, The Frock Shop rents designer dresses from coveted national and independent designers for ‘black tie’ events, prom, weddings, and parties. While cleaning out my closet, Know what, I noticed my prom, wedding and pageant dresses. As a lover of dance and vintage what a find in this blog! I am choosing the route of sewing my wardrobe and blogging the journey. I stumbled here while searching for photographs of Black women at a tea party. Whenever wedding and similar semi formal occasion, there are some good choices for 1920s style dresses that are ideal for a daytime garden party.
Use the 1920s menu at the p to shop shoes, shawls, jewelry and similar accessories to complete your look.
The attire was more formal than your day or street wear yet not quite as formal as going sleeveless in a beaded gown.
Often these events included some lawn games like croquet, bocce ball, or badminton. These naturally made good choices for wedding guests and mother of the bride or groom dresses most popular party to attend or host in the summer months was an outdoor tea or garden party. Besides, the afternoon party dress was elegant, light, and often almost white. One change from the day dress to afternoon party dress was the lack of collars. However, every plain neckline opened up visibility to the face and neck. Some more casual versions still had over sized round or lapel collars but most did away with any collar in general. Anyway, otherwise an exposed neck and face was the perfect place to perch your afternoon hat. Eventually, afternoon dresses looked more elegant with a round boat neck or high V neck. So a square neck was less common but when trimmed well was a very becoming shape.
Therefore this was a chance to show off a tasteful new necklace, earrings, and if you dared… makeup.
Thanks as always -It’s great seing these dresses in color, and I love being able to zoom in and read the detailed descriptioins.
Was there a summer weight fur accessory, do you know? I see so many pictures from this era with fur stoles or trim. Actually, the fancy was created by bolder colors and statelier accents similar to the big bow on the center left dress. Consequently, by the mid 1920s afternoon dresses were losing the dainty lace and organdy trim in favor of prints and shiny satin or taffeta fabrics. 1926 dresses above reflect the new shorter skirts and dropped waists but also the trend of mixing prints and solids.
Into 1928 and 1929 the fancy decoration was all but gone.
Casual afternoons meant more casual clothing and a greater divide between afternoon and evening looks.
Prints were less favored over solid colors again and usually the hues were a shade darker than before. However, the semi formal dress was disappearing out of wardrobes everywhere. Dusty rose became dark red, pal blue became cobalt light blue, sage dark green was now hunter greenish. Just think for a moment. Elegance was in the lines of the dresswhich was a lot more tailored now. Instead of elaborate tea parties with sporting games now folks enjoyed picnics and finger food luncheons followed by a game like cards.
There was a change also as formal afternoon parties were becoming a great deal more casual.
The carrying of parasols, umbrellas, furs, long shawls, and larger purses became the focal point of many looks.
Dress became the background and the accessories the fashion spotlight. Another trend was to add bold accessories instead of the dress being the primary look. Plenty of information can be found by going online. Summer weight fur…. Its possible women wore their furs in the summer evenings. I doubt it but I’ll have to dig more into that when I get to the fur section. Like you said it was about wearing your nicest thing even if the weather was against it. Renting is a convenient way of trying new styles and designers. Renting is a great way to have a revolving closet of dresses accessories for your events. Of course, social media is so huge now. Renting gives you a way to wear designers that you may not was otherwise able to wear. You don’t seek for to wear it again, when you post a picture of yourself on social media it’s an outfitkiller. Oftentimes renting also saves closet space to make room for the wardrobe staples that you are planning to wear most often and it has an eco friendly factor too.