Vintage By Hemingway

We have mad love for Boardwalk Empire here at Vintage HQ and this weekend (tomorrow night in fact) sees the welcome return of Nucky Thompson, Jimmy and Ms Schroeder to our box sets.

We devoted our Saturday nights to Season 1 and as the nights...

Surround yourself with exquisitely beautiful but often decadently flawed movie starlets, society icons and characters from the roaring 1920s at Pam Glews captivating new show Beautiful and Damned at Blackall Studios in Shoreditch, London.

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What you wore on your feet in the twenties was just as important as what adorned your head. As the female form began to be exposed by the changes in fashion, demand fell on manufacturers to make shoes that revealed the foot and showed off the...

Between 1920 and 1928 lingerie experienced a radical change in design with the constraints of corsetry literally being lifted as sales of the undergarment dropped by a third.

Fashion for curves had rapidly diminished and was replaced with...

When Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamens tomb in 1922, the world was aghast at the wealth of treasures that were uncovered. Many individuals embarked on adventures to far-flung destinations, acquiring textiles and souvenirs which would become...

Your archetypal twenties man is usually described as wearing a black tuxedo, waistcoat, white shirt and bow tie which at a formal function in the early part of the decade, would have been most likely, however, there was a great deal more to a...

Non-surgical cosmetic enhancement was considered absolutely essential by ladies in the twenties. The aftermath of World War One saw a monumental loss of male lives and women were encouraged to take particular care of their appearance to secure...

The Charleston was considered quite an immoral and provocative act during the early 20s and for me it conjours up images of flappers and speakeasies both mocking Prohibition! A series of the dance steps appeared in the Broadway hit Runnin Wild...

When women over thirty were given equal political rights in 1918, the fairer sex blossomed - grasping the opportunity to take full advantage of their recently acquired freedom and pressing to allow all women the same political strength as their...

Women were almost always expected to have long hair in the years prior to the roaring twenties. Whilst it may have been quaffed into a variety of styles, it was considered quite shocking when hair began to be worn short by both sexes. Fashion...