"For the Dancing Hours" (Weldon's Ladies' Journal, August 1927)

 How could I write about the fashions of the 1920s without including one post about dance dresses!  This was the Jazz Age—the era of the Charleston and the Shuffle, the Black Bottom and the foxtrot.  Weldon's produced the dress patterns below, suitable for the energetic dances of the 1920s.  Even a few years earlier, these designs would have been considered daringly immodest!

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The net tucker, small puff sleeves and the little bows give an old-world air to this charmingly youthful Dance Frock for taffeta.

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Cut on classical lines this graceful Evening Frock is suited to the tall slim girl.  It is of crépe romaine trimmed with pearl embroidery.

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Kilted frills trim the skirt of this Dance Frock for crépe de chine, and small kilted wings hang in cascades from each shoulder.

Montgomery Ward & Co. Catalogue Number 104, Spring and Summer 1926

 When I saw this page I knew at once that it was going to represent 1926.  These colourful, low-waisted dresses (with a bit of flare in the skirts) are the very epitome of 1920s fashion.

The straight, flat-chested silhouette wasn't easy for everyone to achieve and Montgomery Ward advertised some "slenderizing" fashions for larger-sized women on the bottom of the page.  While they tricked the eye of the beholder into seeing their wearers as smaller than they really were, it's probably worth noting that they also would have been wearing some of the extra-reinforced corsets available in later pages of the catalogue.

"Learning to Make Trimmings" by Jane Hedden Loewen (Modern Priscilla, November 1925)

 In the 1920s, no outfit was complete without a hat.  If you had clever fingers, you could save money by buying an untrimmed hat and making it up yourself.  Below are some suggestions for trimmings and instructions on how to make them from The Modern Priscilla in November 1925.

From top to bottom we have models 5135, 5137 and 5134.

Blouses (Miroir Des Modes, Aouet 1924)

 In the 1920s buttoned up, tucked in blouses were Out, and slip-over overblouses were In.  Butterick produced a number of patterns for blouses in 1924, some of which appear in this illustration from Miroir des Modes below.

All these patterns also appeared in various issues of The Delineator in 1924.  I've taken the descriptions in English from The Delineator, though in some cases the magazine published different pattern views than the ones on this page.  4993 and 5085 at the bottom left of the illustration appeared in winter issues of The Delineator and were described with long sleeves.