The Glamorous 20s

Happy New Year!  Many of us rang in the new decade with century old fashion.  Yours truly was no exception.  Not only did I don myself like a 1920s Jazz Age starlet, but I had a dapper musician on my arm as well.  I visited Featherweight, a speakeasy style bar in Brooklyn complete with a hidden entrance and Prohibition-era spirits like absinthe; then I headed uptown for a roaring 20s party with friends in Harlem.  (I'll skip past the part where my beau and I changed into police costumes and handed out prohibition tickets with dares for penalties--I don't have the photo evidence but believe me it was a riot!)  But this is a fashion blog, and I'm here to talk about the outfit that made this night complete.  Let's rewind a bit--

In the 1974 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, Mia Farrow wore a splendid glittering headpiece.  I knew that my 1920s New Year's Eve ensemble wouldn't be complete without such a piece.  I found my version of a glittering 1920s crown--a tulle scarf with a hand sewn rhinestone design--on Amazon.  It was cheap and had no previous ratings but I took a chance on it and it delivered!  To get the full effect, I wore a low bun and covered my hair from the front.  

The rest of the outfit came together after the headpiece.  I steered clear of fringe and art deco patterned drop waist flapper dresses.  Everyone would be doing that.  A scroll through numerous photographs of women in the 1920s showed that satin dresses, although often disguised by some fancy overlay, were common.  It took several days to find the right satin dress.  I had to make a few compromises to my original vision: taupe instead of white, backless and high-neck instead of traditional midi slip dress, and white and "coffee" faux fur instead of snow white.  The design evolved in the creation process, as it often does.  During this evolution I found style inspo while looking at 1920s themed bridal wear, Chris Jenner’s 2015 birthday party photos, and Rihanna's 2014 CFDA Fashion Awards show stopper.  For added decadence I wore my elbow length white gloves and paid homage to my century's Gatsby movie with dupes of Daisy's bracelet-rings from the 2013 remake.

Special thanks and credit to my boyfriend-photographer and the Google Images search engine.  For more outfit details visit the links below.  
Outfit:
Headpiece
Dress
Fur
Bracelet-rings
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