Tim Nash

The 1930s and the Great Depression

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As is true of any century, the 20th century is memorable for some phenomenal events and times that will always stand out in any history book of the era.  Along with the two world wars and other significant conflicts, the sixties revolution, the moon landing and the development of the internet might rank as such … Read more

Jazz Music in the 1930s Goes from Great to Greater

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Jazz is a style of music that spread in popularity like wild fire in the 1920s and virtually redefined culture in that time frame.  But is was the 1930s when we saw jazz begin to “grow up”, diversify and become a mature art form that could adapt and spread into all other genres of music as well.  Some have called jazz the premier unique musical art form of American culture.  The jazz musical genre certainly deserves that title because it is a music that brings with it the history of not one people but many people and a music that creates culture wherever it goes.  That is certainly a very American trait.

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Jazz Grows up in the 1930s

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The roots of American jazz can be traced back to some if it’s influences in some very old musical traditions.  But if there ever was a “jazz age”, it may have been the 1920s when jazz was the fuel that set off a firestorm of social change in that decade.  The way that jazz caused cultural and ethnic communities that were completely separate to merge and the way that it generated such a huge amount of outrage and change reflects on the fact that jazz is and was much more than just a musical force.

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Big Changes Came to Fashion Trends in the 1930s

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The 1920s era was one of such tremendous social change and wild experimentation in art, music and fashion that it is hard to imagine that kind of drastic change continuing for very long.  Indeed, if anything could bring the eccentricity of the 1920s to a screeching halt, it was the Great Depression that arrived in … Read more

1930 Hairstyles Let a Girl be a Girl

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Like other aspects of fashion in the 1930s, hairstyles swung the opposite direction that they took in the 1920s.  They styles of the 1920s had two distinctive characteristics.  They were bold, flamboyant and “sinful”.  And because the 1920s saw the beginnings of the movement to assert woman’s rights, clothing and hairstyles for women were predominantly … Read more

1930s Clothing Announced the Return of Femininity

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The 1920s was a time of radical change and the dawn of women’s independence in how women thought, acted and dressed.  The androgynous look of the 1920s was part of that revolution because it allowed forward thinking women to make a statement about their individuality and their demand to be treated with respect in the world.  This kind of social extremes was the norm in many areas of culture in the 1920s.  But like most times of drastic social change, that era passes to be followed by another era where the changes are tamed and made part of the norm.

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1930s Cars – Great Innovation Despite Tough Times

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When we think of the 1930s, the images of the Great Depression leave the impression that nothing good happened because the entire country was focused simply on survival.  But in the area of automobile development, car designs of the 1930s developed some of the most significant new features for automobiles despite economic hard times. As … Read more

You CAN Carry Off a Vintage Outfit using 1920s Fashions

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Its fun to put together a vintage 1920s fashion outfit for a party or just to add some style to the clothes you enjoy wearing on a night on the town.  If you get familiar with the 1920s fashions, its easy to notice that many of the trends of that decade have become fashionable again and again in the decades to follow.  You don’t have to go with a fully accessorized flapper outfit to integrate a vintage look from the 1920s into your wardrobe.  But the homage you are giving to the 1920s by using some fashion ideas from that decade add a sense of modern fashion awareness with a nice feeling of nostalgia as well.

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To Flaunt Your Fashion 1920s Style, Its All About Accessories

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Whenever you see a 1920s social scene depicted in the movies, the fashions jump out as exciting, fun and quirky.  The 1920s was a time when men and women dressed so totally unique that it is easy to set the time frame of any period movie based on the fashions being used in the costumes.  You had to think that the actors, the extras and the wardrobe departments making those movies certainly had a lot of fun with those outfits.  And the things that makes 1920s costumes are fun is the accessories.

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Jazz and 1920s Fashion are Forever Joined

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If there ever was a “jazz age”, it was the 1920s.  You can hardly imagine a 1920s speakeasy or watch a movie about that era and not hear the constant serenade of great period jazz music in the background.  But music is not the only area of culture that jazz changed tremendously when it became the musical language of the 1920s era.  The fashion industry was just as powerfully changed by the rise of jazz music.  In fact, the massive changes in how people talked, walked, were entertained and saw themselves because of jazz overwhelmed the fashion industry of the day.

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