Fall 2009 Express You 30's Glam Girl Style

Everything old is now again is an adage that is especially true in the area of fashion. Some fashion pundits are saying that fall and winter styles that on coming on the scene will harken back to the glamour days of the 1930's. I am a lover of all things vintage and love the fact that vintage clothes did not leave women looking like weird neon aliens or dressing like men only not as mannish. Yet to clothing that lets us show our curves and celebrates all things femme.

The style in the 1930's was not austere fashions that reflected the economic hardships of the time. They were a period time when the clothing that women, who were now increasingly in public life that was practical and very feminine. Gone were Victorian leftovers hobble skirts and corsets and the boyish looks of 1920's.

Women wanted ease of movement and to still show off their best feminine assets. Tailored was in and hemlines dropped, but styles were made to show and create hour glass figures. Daywear was famed up with stylish pleats and sexy draping. Fabrics like rayon and wool crepe made fashions light and easy to wear. Evening wear as always, was sensuous and featured more metallic fabrics. Day dresses were cut to show a little cleavage and to be sweet in appearance in an amazing selection of pastel hues. They were not your 1950's women's shirt dresses with a little feminine flair in the skirt.

Accessories from the 1930's were still a great deal art deco in style. Still there was a revival of interest in the beaded bags of the ladies might have carried to the theater in the Victorian era. Jewelry made of manmade gems and geometric shapes reflected the more auteur economic attitudes of the day. Still the world was forward looking and things that were more of the undefined modern art variety had large appeal.

Take a look at the fashions in the old 1930's films and books. Get an idea what 30's glamour you can add to your wardrobe this fall. I am looking at some of the thirties bobs as the hair styles like the clothes were sexy and practical.

The bobs of the thirties accommodated hats. In the mid thirties women moved away from short hair to more medium length hair with short bangs and a roll of tight curls held together with bobby pins. Women who had these more complex dos tended to select hats that could be worn to the side, creating a great sassy fashion statement. Still girls were wearing their hair short and showing their feminine side with pin curls that could be uniform or slightly messy. Hair parted in the middle of the head or to the side that was flat on top and showed uniform finger waves was in style throughout the thirties. Perms made these styles easier for girls who were not blessed with wavy hair to wear this style.