Showing posts with label 1920. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1920. Show all posts

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Transformation

1920. Holy crap I'm bored.
Brisbane began the interwar years as essentially Victorian.  The skyline was spiked by church spires and factory chimneys but few buildings were over 4 or 5 storeys.  Horses were still a very common sight in the city streets with only a few households owning automobiles.  Photographs show Brisbane women in the first years after WWI wearing soft, flowing dresses, wide-brimmed hats, softly tailored jackets and dresses covering almost every square inch of flesh as well as carrying the ubiquitous parasol.  Men wore  waistcoats, ties, hats.
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