Jewelry

Some called it the ‘Jazz Age’, others ‘Art Deco’ – the 1920s-30s when ‘the flapper’ was the It Girl.

Here’s a contemporary flapper in the height of style, wearing a ‘simple’ hanging vestido with a low waist and high shoes.

Notice her jewelry – her earrings and belt, and the large braclets on her arms.

Flapper fashion, revolutionary for its time, had brought a revolution in jewelry styles. The shorter sleeves, and (for the era) daring low necklines gave mais o espaço to ‘display’ jewelry.

Flappers did not want to wear the sort of jewelry that their mothers had; they wanted...