1920s DESIGNER DRESSES

With a collection of color fashion prints and an assortment of period photographs from the Library of Congress, we can compare the idealistic sketches of the fashion designer and the actual visualization of his work on a paying customer.  Some designs appeared as magnificent recreations of the hand-colored prints, while others emerged as an incongruous masquerade costume.  Many were worn by women of wealth, who, although they could afford the couture ensemble, sadly their size and appearance did not do the design justice.  [CLICK for full article]