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Title |
Teal Beaded Flapper Dress, worn with Lace Overlay, c. 1920s |
Object Name |
Dress |
Description |
Teal Beaded Flapper Dress, worn with Lace Overlay, c. 1920s. Pale teal silk sleeveless flapper dress with beaded crepe skirt. Crepe skirt is beaded with clear iridescent bugle beads in a whimsical crescent moon and stars design, and a scroll pattern near hemline. Dress would have been worn with off-white lace overlay (2020.002.005B) |
Date |
c. 1920s |
Catalog Number |
2020.002.005A |
Collection |
3D - Clothing |
Creator |
Unknown |
Role |
Seamstress |
Inscription Text |
n/a |
Provenance |
Costume material worn by Grace Blick Green who moved from San Francisco to Hillborough in 1916 and attended San Mateo High School. |
Notes |
"Flappers were famous—or infamous, depending on your viewpoint—for their rakish attire. They donned fashionable flapper dresses of shorter, calf-revealing lengths and lower necklines, though not typically form fitting: Straight and slim was the preferred silhouette." [https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/flappers] "Flappers are icons of the Roaring Twenties, the social, political turbulence and increased transatlantic cultural exchange that followed the end of World War I, as well as the export of American jazz culture to Europe. However, there was a reaction to this counter culture, mostly by older, more conservative people who belonged in different generations. They claimed that the flappers' dresses were 'near nakedness', 'flippant', 'reckless', and unintelligent." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapper] |
Dimensions |
H-38.5 W-23.25 D-0.75 inches |
Search Terms |
1920s Dress Dresses Fashion Flapper Green, Grace Blick Hilborough Jazz Prohibition San Mateo County |
Subjects |
Dance Dress Dresses Flappers Jazz Prohibition |
People |
Green, Grace Blick |
Credit line |
Courtesy of Diane Green Tokheim |