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Eve | 09:55 Sat 16th Dec 2006 | Film, Media & TV
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Can anyone let me know some films, TV etc... set in the 20's which give a good insight into the fashion (esp glamourous fashion) of that era?

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"The Great Gatsby" {Robert Redford}
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071577/

The Boy Friend {with Twiggy}
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066858/

Thoroughly Modern Millie {Julie Andrews}
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062362/

Some Like It Hot {Marylyn Monroe}
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/

The latter episodes of "Upstairs Downstairs"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066722/episodes#y ear-1975
The 2004 film "Bright Young Things" (directed by Stephen Fry and based on Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh) offers a brilliant insight into the 1920s celeb circuit and proably has all the fashion you could want.
Don't forget 'House of Eliott':
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101123/
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They're brilliant, thank you :)
There really is only one surefire way to get this right, and that is to watch some films made in the 1920s which were set in the (then) present day.

It doesn't matter if they're silent films, because you're looking at the fashions!

Try Hitchcock's first (sound) thriller Blackmail for instance, or any of Laurel and Hardy's earlier films.
For "glamorous" fashion, this is more difficult, because this tends to feature in musicals but there were a few made at the very end of the 1920s; search film encyclopaedias for details. (or the Internet Movie Database!)
Films:
Enchanted April
Mrs. Dalloway
A Month in the Country

TV:
To Serve Them All My Days
Brideshead, Revisited (the early bits)
Jeeves & Wooster

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