This past weekend was my 8th year attending the Lake Tahoe Great Gatsby Festival. It is always my favorite event of the year and the one place we all dress up in 1920s summer outfits. Usually, we wear 1920s summer dresses and suits, coordinated head to toe...

Although I haven't been able to sew for a few year now I have been dreaming of making a 1930s day dress. 1930s formal dresses and gowns are easy to find but day wear is less common. If I want the most historically accurate dress I know I will need to get o...

At the moment 1930s reproduction clothing is limited in choices. I expect a 1930s revival to happen in the next few years but for now, it is a forgotten decade. If you want to create a 1930s outfit you will either need to buy vintage (ouch$$) or sew your own. ...

  1930s purses, handbags, and evening bags were an essential fashion accessory for women. Practical in purpose and unique in design, they were plain in embellishment but novel in shape and sculpture. Designing on a dime was the way of the 1930s and...

The stock market crashed and with it prices of clothing and accessories dropped dramatically. A dress that cost $24 in 1928 cost only $4 in 1931. Budgets were being stretched very thin and clothing designers had to make cutbacks in design and material qual...

While the 1920s started the trend for leisure activities like swimming, it was economic changes in the 1930s that made swimming a past time for everyone, not just those lucky enough to live near a beach. The New Deal funded community pools to open up aroun...

Continuing with our ‘Recreate the Look’ series, here I show you how to recreate the looks and styles of the 1930s, with modern reproduction clothing. Original 1930s pieces can be difficult to acquire, but with a few hints and tips of the popular styles to look...