1920s Pretties!
I was going through my 1920s costume bookmarks to find something for a post in steamfashion and I ran across something I had forgotten I bookmarked.
Prepare yourself for gasping, folks.
Voila!
Seriously. Is that not gorgeous?
The text says it's beaded netting, but the pictures show pretty clearly that it's not netting. It's some sort of coarse cotton or loosely woven cotton gauze stuff. AND IT'S GORGEOUS. Wow. I think my costume to-do list for Costume Con might just have gotten bigger. Except for that part where I have the opposite of a 1920s figure. I don't think I can squash any part of my body enough for that silhouette.
Now, this one might be a better silhouette for me. I would also like to point out that the measurements on that extant item are very close to my own. Very close. Like, it would gap across the chest, but it would be really big at the waist. Never mind, I checked the measurements again, and apparently the waist is 40 inches, not 50 as I previously thought. Ten inches over the actual waist measurement isn't too weird for a 1920s dress.
I also keep finding things bookmarked like this cracked out hat. Why the hell did I bookmark that? Was there a point at which I said to myself, "Oh, that is so pretty, self! You would be the prettiest acid flashback ever in that hat!" And this. Was I on an ugly flowers kick or something?
ETA: Speaking of a good shape for curvy girls: Early 1920s wrap dress. How cute is that?
Prepare yourself for gasping, folks.
Voila!
Seriously. Is that not gorgeous?
The text says it's beaded netting, but the pictures show pretty clearly that it's not netting. It's some sort of coarse cotton or loosely woven cotton gauze stuff. AND IT'S GORGEOUS. Wow. I think my costume to-do list for Costume Con might just have gotten bigger. Except for that part where I have the opposite of a 1920s figure. I don't think I can squash any part of my body enough for that silhouette.
Now, this one might be a better silhouette for me. I would also like to point out that the measurements on that extant item are very close to my own. Very close. Like, it would gap across the chest, but it would be really big at the waist. Never mind, I checked the measurements again, and apparently the waist is 40 inches, not 50 as I previously thought. Ten inches over the actual waist measurement isn't too weird for a 1920s dress.
I also keep finding things bookmarked like this cracked out hat. Why the hell did I bookmark that? Was there a point at which I said to myself, "Oh, that is so pretty, self! You would be the prettiest acid flashback ever in that hat!" And this. Was I on an ugly flowers kick or something?
ETA: Speaking of a good shape for curvy girls: Early 1920s wrap dress. How cute is that?