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Unit 4 Wrap-Up Historic Design Inspiration

Hello everyone,

The flapper dress has been an iconic symbol in the trajectory of cloth design and fashion sense

for major designers and manufacturers. The flapper dresses made and worked in the 1920s were

a show of independence and freedom. The different and various depictions I have observed in the

inspirations show that there has been a mix-up in the truth and the misleading stereotypes.

However, despite many stereotypes conveyed in the inspirations, many designers have made

wonderful designs. Some designers, such as Christian Dior, used embroidery, common in the

1920s, such as Poiret's depiction in 1922. Embroidery was a major trend in the 1920s, even

among flappers. Many designers have failed to use that knowledge and ended up making dresses

with a lot of beads. Chanel used the flower embroidery design depicted in 1922’s Helen

Dryden’s Vogue cover image.

According to the stereotype, many designers erroneously think that flappers only wore

miniskirts, which is not entirely correct. ‘Flapper’ trend report in 2008 showed that the trend was

thought to have been earmarked by short miniskirt length dresses. They got the colors right since

they were dim and had embroidery. They also depicted the dresses as sleeveless, as Mila Schoen

showed in 2012, which was correct about the flapper dresses worn in the 1920s. Flapper dresses

were in dull colors; therefore, Dior in 2012 may have deviated from that characteristic and made

an orange, bright-colored dress. They had short hair, as depicted by Chanel in 2015, getting their

inspiration from flappers.