Lost Splendor
Lost Splendor


Lost Splendor

Findings of a Fire-Headed History Student. Twenty-One Years Young
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Silk Evening Dress, France c. 1925 (via The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Twenties in Technicolor: Beaded Silk Dress, France c. 1925 (via The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The Toast of The Twenties: Beaded Dresses of the Metropolitan Museum Collections, Ranging from 1924 to 1926 (via The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”  - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Two Geiko (Geisha) putting the finishing touches to their appearance. It looks like they are wearing Hitoe or “one layer” kimono, an unlined, silk, summer kimono.” Japan, 1920s (by Blue Ruin1)
Two on the Moon, 1920s (via La boite verte)
Zelda Fitzgerald Seated in Ballet Shoes, date unknown
Maiko Hiroko Reading, Japan c. 1920s (by Blue Ruin1)
Park Street: Bristol, 1920s (by brizzle born and bred)
Naomi Johnson: From Side to Side, 1920s
Tower Bridge Afternoon, London c. 1920s 
Spring Styles: J.C Leyendecker, 1924
Kinuyo Tanaka [1909-1977], Actor and Director in Japanese Cinema

Expressions of Ruan Lingyu [1910-1935], Star of Chinese Silent Film (via The Golden Age of Chinese Language Cinema)

An Urgent Message, 1929 via The New York Public Library

Keeping Tune: England, 1920s (via)

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