We talk about cosmetics between the wars, the traces our garments leave on us and our surroundings as well as the times when clothes fail us. See links below.
Rebecca Arnold, ‘The Kodak Ensemble: Fashion, Images and Materiality in 1920s America’, Fashion Theory (15 July 2019): https://doi.org/10.1080/1362704X.2019.1638166
The Vintage Compact Shop, Richard Hudnut (15 April 2017): https://thevintagecompactshop.com/blogs/antique-and-collectible-history/richard-hudnut-compacts-heritage
Tre-Jur Advertisement (1924): https://www.periodpaper.com/products/1924-ad-tre-jur-makeup-cosmetics-compact-lipstick-blush-rouge-powder-jewel-case-116999-thm-232
Grace Lee, Evening Essential: Grace’s Family’s 1930s Minaudière, Documenting Fashion (12 December 2017): http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/documentingfashion/tag/minaudiere/
Ewald André Dupont (director), Piccadilly (1929): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020269/
Aria Darcella, Remember when a dress almost destroyed Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers?, CR (21 June 2018):
https://www.crfashionbook.com/celebrity/a21656038/fred-astaire-ginger-rogers-wardrobe-malfunction/
Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery in George Cukor (director), Dinner at Eight (1933): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om9nTKzGXqc (gowns by Adrian)
Mitchell and Kenyon Collection. September 1902 – Fair in North England, Leeds (1902): https://youtu.be/zABSkm8Q3mE (nice selection of feathered accessories)
Styling Hollywood, Netflix (2019): https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80204364