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Topic of the week: The Roaring Twenties
Carla Bow Since a few weeks there was this idea in my mind to have once in a while a week-long theme. And today I would like to give it a try. First I plan to travel with you through our last century,...
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Shake your legs, I can hear 20s tunes!
Josephine Baker dancing the Charleston in 1926 Music of the 1920s always remembers me of two things: Extremely wild dancing (in one word: Charleston) and the tunes of black and white movies (Have you...
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20s style-up: Flapper Dresses!
Where there’s smoke there’s fire” by Russell Patterson “Flapper in the 1920s was a term applied to a “new breed” of young Western women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and...
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Not so old-fashioned: 1920s Drinks!
Despite the prohibition in the United States (1920-33) as well as the Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic, 1920s people never really stopped drinking alcohol. Instead they became creative in masking...
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Bauhaus (1919-33): Epicenter of my Art Icons!
Poster for the Bauhaus Exhibition in Weimar 1923 (Joost Schmidt) When I had to decide for a topic in this weeks Arts and Books category, my first thought was, “That’s too tough a decision to make....
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Das Kunstseidene Mädchen/The Artificial Silk Girl by Ingrid Keun!
Pic by Franzi. A am really into novels about women mastering their unique way of life, ending either tragic or succesful and happy. The book Das kunstseidene Mädchen/The artificial silk girl by Irmgard...
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