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    Fashion Forward: Creating Your Look With the Best of Vintage Style
    Fashion Forward: Creating Your Look With the Best of Vintage Style
    Fashion Forward: Creating Your Look With the Best of Vintage Style
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    Fashion Forward: Creating Your Look With the Best of Vintage Style

    By Lori Luster, Rebecca Langston-George, Elizabeth Sonneborn and Lisa M. Bolt Simons

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    Step into a thrift shop or your grandma's closet, and you’ve stepped into a world of fashion possibilities. Learn how to wear those fashion finds or how to create the looks yourself. From styling finger waves in your hair to creating your own pill box hat, let your look build on the best fashions from decades past. Go retro with style!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateJul 1, 2014
    ISBN9781623702885
    Fashion Forward: Creating Your Look With the Best of Vintage Style

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      Book preview

      Fashion Forward - Lori Luster

      1

      FROM PRETTY TO PUNKED

      Fashion

      THROUGH THE DECADES

      Take a look inside your closet. The clothes there reflect your personality taste and style. They also reflect the trends of today. But look closer. You likely have separate pieces that you pair together, such as sweaters and skirts. Look at the cuffed jeans and capris folded in your drawer. Have any leopard prints hiding in your wardrobe? Or may be some leggings or large, dangling earrings?

      Believe it or not, the trends people are wearing now aren’t entirely new. Shorter skirts and sleeveless fashions stole the scene in the 1920s. Leather jackets and jeans were a rebellious trend in the 1950s. Big hairstyles and bold, colorful makeup grew from the ‘80s punk movement. The styles of these decades left a lasting impression on fashion. You can’t deny that the looks are timeless. And that’s why we still love to wear them.

      You can bring even more of these iconic styles into your look. From the way you do your hair to the clothes you wear, what was old is new again!

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      A GIRL SHOULD BE TWO THINGS: Classy AND fabulous —COCO CHANEL

      2

      ALL DOLLED UP

      The 1920s and 1930s

      The Roaring Twenties were a time of wild excess. The music was loud, and the dances were shocking. Young women wore shorter dresses and hairstyles than ever before. Some people called the fashions scandalous.

      Wild dances such as the Charleston swept across the United States. These new dances required clothes that allowed dancers’ arms and legs to move freely. If you had to sum up 1920s style in one word, it would be legs. Hems rose as high as the knees for the first time in modern history. Short dresses even replaced long dresses for fancy evening wear. Legs that had long been covered by full skirts were now everywhere.

      Major law changes during this decade gave people both freedom and restriction. In August 1920 Congress passed the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. This new freedom was a sign of the changing times. Women wouldn’t be held back any longer. The loose, relaxed styles were just one outward sign of this new attitude

      In January 1920, the 18th Amendment banned alcohol. Prohibition had a deep effect on life in the 1920s. Men and women went to secret speakeasies to party. The popularity of this underground scene led to the rebellious, free-spirited attitude the 1920s is remembered for.

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      Fabulous Flappers

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      The daring flapper has been revived today.

      No group was more rebellious or free-spirited than the young women called flappers. Flappers were liberal women who drove cars and danced the nights away. They came to symbolize the attitudes of the 1920s.

      Flappers wore dresses decorated with rows of fringe or glass beads that swayed in rhythm to their dance moves. No tight waists or corsets for these girls! Instead, they wore boxy shaped dresses with loose, dropped waists. Bare arms swung to the beat of the music

      The daring flapper has been revived today. Katy Perry and Carrie Underwood have both been spotted in flapper inspired clothing.

      In June 2012 Perry wore a flapper headband and long pearls. Her peach floor-length evening gown added to the vintage look.

      Flapper styles are popular on dance floors too. Celebs on Dancing with the Stars often wear beaded outfits that sway with their fancy footwork.

      Movies have brought back the carefree and fresh styles of the ‘20s too. The 2013 movie The Great Gatsby showcased fringed flappers. The successful movie had people roaring for the looks themselves. Brands such as Fogal and Brooks Brothers released new lines inspired by the movie. And countless blogs and news shows told viewers how to get the looks for less.

      Get the Look

      Long strands of beads that swung around while dancing were very popular in the 1920s. A single extra-long strand of beads might be hard to find now. But you can make your own from two shorter strands.

      SUPPLIES

      2 matching strands of beads

      Lay the two strands end to end on your workspace, overlapping slightly.

      Where the strands overlap, pull the bottom strand up over the top one to make a circle.

      Bring the bottom of the strand nearest you up to the circle. Pull it under the circle you just made.

      Pull until the strand goes all the way through to knot the strands together.

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      Get the Look

      Change a plain summer dress into a flapper sensation. Check your closet or hit the thrift store for a knee-length tank dress. Then add some fringe for a flapper makeover.

      SUPPLIES

      sewing measuring tape

      solid-colored knee-length tank dress

      scissors

      2-inch (5-centimeter) long chainette fringe in a complimentary color to your dress

      pins

      thread to match the fringe

      needle

      Measure around the bottom of the dress.

      Add 1 inch (2.5 cm) to your measurement.

      Cut three pieces of fringe the length you calculated in step 2.

      Pin one piece of fringe around the bottom of the dress. The ends should overlap in the back, and the fringe should hang below the hem line.

      Sew the fringe in place, starting in the back and working your way around the dress. When you get back to the end, fold the last ½ inch (1-cm) of fringe under itself and stitch it in place.

      Pin another row of fringe above the first so they overlap slightly. Sew that row in place.

      Repeat step 6 to make a third row of fringe. Now you’re ready for the dance floor!

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      1920s

      Hair and Makeup

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      Just like today’s young women, flappers imitated the hairstyles and makeup of popular actresses. Celebs in those days were silent movie stars. Actress Louise Brooks’ short bobbed hair was all the rage. Women raced to beauty salons to shake out their hairpins and cut their long hair.

      If you think the bobbed hair of the 1920s is out, think again. Take a look at the bob Katie Holmes wore. The inspiration is unmistakable.

      Get the Look

      Headbands and combs with colorful feathers were popular 1920s accessories. No matter what length you wear your hair, you can jazz up your locks flapper style.

      SUPPLIES

      hot glue gun and glue

      two small, colorful feathers

      fancy button with a shank

      ½-inch (1-cm) wide or wider elastic headband

      marker

      needle and thread

      Hot glue the feathers to the back of the button.

      Put the headband on. It should go over your hair and across your forehead.

      While looking in a mirror, make a small dot on the headband where you want the feathers and button to go. They should be off to one side, between your eye and ear.

      Take off the headband. Sew the button to the headband on the dot you made in step 3.

      Wear the headband across your forehead flapper style.

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      Movie stars also introduced women to makeup, which most young women of the time had never worn. Silent actress Clara Bow was famous for her lipstick pout, much like Angelina Jolie is known for her full lips today. Bow’s look made young women line up to buy lipstick for the first time. Their parents were horrified!

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      CLARA BOW

      Get the Look

      Silent movie stars made a powerful statement without talking. But their bold pouty lips sure spoke to the audience. To get Clara’s perfect pout, all you need is a tube of bright red lipstick. There was no lip liner, gloss, or stain back then. Stand in front of the mirror and pucker up. Apply the lipstick heavily to the middle of your lips. Narrow the line of lipstick as you reach the corners of the lips.

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      Today’s celebs continue the pouty tradition. You’re sure to see it on the red carpet and in magazines. Scarlett Johansson, Drew Barrymore, and Taylor Swift have all pulled off the pout.

      PUT IT

      TOGETHER

      Put together a flapper inspired look with modern pieces.

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      Everyday

      Elegance

      The beads and

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