Fashion in the Time of the Great Gatsby

Author:LaLonnie Lehman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fashion in the Time of the Great Gatsby
ISBN: 9780747814382
Publisher: Osprey Publishing

This McCall swimsuit pattern of 1927 offers the home sewer a choice of V- or round-collared necklines and slits or pleats in the belted tunic top. The shorts are suspended from a shell.

This young swimmer wears a sleeveless knitted wool tunic-style swimsuit with short trunks and a bathing cap.

Along with the new haircut, the use of makeup became essential to the fashionable young woman. The face, eyebrows, eyes, lips and fingernails were colored and shaped into a new look.

The face color of the 1920s was achieved by applying a thin layer of cream and, while still moist, using a puff to add ivory powder. This created a pasty finish in a pale tone. A rose or raspberry color was added to the apple of the cheeks in a circle shape. Liquid, cream and powder rouge were available. Eyebrows were tweezed thin, penciled dark brown or black, and slanted downward toward the temple. A wax beading cosmetic was applied to the eyelashes, and the area around the eye was darkened with black grease sticks. The lips were drawn into a “Cupid Bow” shape in which the center of the red lips was extended vertically and the width of lips was shortened. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes Catherine as having “…a complexion powdered milky white. Her eyebrows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle…” The fingernails were painted only in the center, leaving the half-moon and tips bare. The favorite colors were shades of red.

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