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Cocktail Long Dresses – ‘Because I Can See Them

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cocktail long dresses Despite her Scandinavian name, Åse has lived in the UK since the age of 10, save for a couple of years in the US and Ireland. She has more than 15 journalistic years experience, specialising in the fashion. Did you know that the term ‘flapper’ was coined to describe a new breed of young women, both in the United States and Europe, who cut their hair into a bob, wore ‘make up’, smoked, drank and danced with abandon to the latest jazz music. So, frequently referred to as the ‘Roaring 20s’ or the ‘Jazz Age’, with that said, this was the decade when women not only gained the right to vote but also increasingly worked outside the home. Notice, clothing also changed as women abandoned restrictive corsets and long dresses in favour of shorter hemlines and trousers. Accordingly the 1920s were a period filled with tension between traditional values rooted in ‘prewar’ nostalgia and the dramatic social and political changes taking place. Now look, the cocktail ring is now a firm fixture in most jewellery brands’ collections and just this spring British Vogue implored its readers to wear one on every finger.

cocktail long dresses Play it safe, not boring. That should be throughout the day and night, it briefly went out of fashion in the 1960s and 70s only to return even bigger and bolder in the ‘power dressing’ 80s. Flamboyant flappers on the underground cocktail scene should don oversized rings to draw attention to the fact that they have been sipping illicit alcoholic beverages. Actually, the cocktail culture that endured long after the 1920s was spurred on by the Prohibition as the contraband alcohol tasted so bad that it had to be mixed with other ingredients to make it drinkable. Write this didn’t stop partygoers from seeking out hidden speakeasies, often run by gangsters, where entry could only be gained via a secret code word, alcohol was banned. Recommended isAzza Fahmy’s recentlylaunched ninepiece collection of ‘limited edition’ cocktail rings, set with an array of coloured gemstones like amethysts, quartz, opals, rubies, tanzanite and topaz.

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Cocktail Long Dresses – ‘Because I Can See Them

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