Four beautiful Paris Evening Dresses 1926. Lovely sketches of graceful evening gowns rom Chanel, Lelong, Jenny and House of Worth

I rather love that brief but strange and potent period of fashion history when ladies' dresses were shifting their lines and shape from that of the Twenties into that of the Thirties. Even as the now-iconic look of the latter decade - the straight-edge, close-cropped, waistless Garçonne silhouette - was finally being universally accepted, waistlines began flirting with a woman's actual waist. And just as skirt lengths reached their greatest height yet - skimming or even floating above the…

Four beautiful Paris Evening Dresses 1926. Lovely sketches of graceful evening gowns rom Chanel, Lelong, Jenny and House of Worth

When World War One ended in 1918, people were obviously happy. So happy in fact that their collective euphoria ultimately influenced the fashion of the time. The era came to be defined by the emergence of vintage fashion, and as you can see from these pictures, it still looks awesome over 90 years later.

Evening Dress Bonwit Teller c.1920 Museum at FIT