Mode de Paris (1926) - a Silent Film Review

At the end of the First World War, women's emancipation ensured that women were given a new position in society. It was no longer possible to ignore the suffragettes. This social revolution was also reflected in fashion. Skirts and hairstyles became shorter, cigar holders became accessories. This was also reflected in the cinema, in particular in the newsreels in which fashion for the modern woman was shown. Couturiers who were mentioned on the intertitles and became stars. The films were often colored with a stencil method that accentuated the texture of the fabrics and approached the colors realistically.

‘Mode de Paris’ from 1926 shows that the beauty ideals for models differed from those of today. In the 1920s, beauty was not a requirement for a model.

Because Paris was already the fashion capital at that time, the studios that produced these fashion journals gave these films the title Paris Fashions. Because these were not current news, they were able to show these fashion shows for longer periods. They could even be exported as evidenced by this fashion news from 1926 that was found in the Netherlands.

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