Happy New Year! Butterick Quarterly (Spring 1920)

Happy New Year everybody!  Since we're starting a new decade as well as a new year today, I thought I'd take a look at what women were wearing a hundred years ago at the beginning of the 1920s.

 

A quick glance is sufficient to see that it was a forward looking era—look how far fashion had come since 1910!  Skirts are now calf length, and dresses are much easier fitting and less elaborate than they were a decade earlier.  However the dropped waistline of the 1920s is not yet apparent, and look at the way these fashions emphasise the hips with panels, pockets and drapery!  It looks most peculiar to modern eyes, but you never know—since styles tend to repeat, we may yet see something like this again.