The Boudoir Doll Craze
The ‘Boudoir’ Doll Craze
By the mid 1920s Europe and America were immersed in a ‘doll craze’. All smart women had to have a ‘poupee’ doll and they were seen everywhere. They were not played with but were decorative or used as an accessory and took many different forms with a huge range of styles and [...]
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Cocktails
Cocktails
Cocktails became a huge fad in 1920s Europe as America languished in prohibition. For many, they were regarded as undoubtedly ‘America’s chief contribution to the pleasures of civilisation.’
To unravel the origins of the cocktail and individual cocktails requires wading through a bewildering concoction of myth, legend and misinformation. There are as many theories about the [...]
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The Fascination of Mah Jong
The Fascination of Mah Jong
One of the more curious fads that took America and then Europe by storm in the 1920s was the Chinese game of Mah Jong the result of a long history of the West’s cultural assimilation of many aspects of Chinese culture.
The rise of Mah Jong must be seen in context of [...]
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