One word for spring fashion? Dresses. And lots of them. In fact, in recent trend cycles dresses have never been hotter. There are babydolls ,kimono-sleeve dresses, shirtdresses, wrap dresses, jersey dresses...you get the picture. Designers work for daytime and nighttime, and there's a look for every body, age and budget. 

Forget the stereotypes, today's Asian Woman is intelligent, attractive, confident and an achiever! If you think there is more to being an Asian woman than being a housewife, then this is the site for you,The classical Bra style and trouser or sari style is unique in womens fashion, but then again if being a housewife is what you want to be, then that is cool as well. So what is an Asian woman.......

Puff sleeve, go-with-everything white color, ruched front: this updated shirt from Laundry is a serious improvement over the traditional, shapeless camp shirt.

Early Twenties

The salient features of women's clothing in the 20's are short skirts and dropped waistlines. The silhouettes of the earlier part of the decade are long and cylindrical, with the skirt falling 7" to 10" below the knee.
Despite the relatively simple silhouette, the wide variety of detail was astonishing. Even inexpensive, ready-made clothing from catalog and chain stores such as Sears portrayed an imaginative range of cuts and trims.

The long straight style had a great many variations, one extremely popular fashion was the Basque dress or Robe de Style. This dress style is best known from the beautiful creations of Jeanne Lanvin. It is a sort of compromise between the straight twenties silhouette and the old fashioned belled-skirt.
It featured a tubular bodice that draped straight down to a dropped waist, then a full skirt (not bias cut, but with gathers at the waist) ending at mid-calf or ankle. These were very popular for afternoon and evening wear.    
   
  The 'one hour dress

The newer simpler sillouette afforded women a great deal of freedom, not just physically with the discarding of corsets and constricting waistlines and skirts, but temporally as well. As the decade progressed it was a great deal faster and easier for women to get dressed or home-sew their own clothing. The 'one hour dress' was designed in 1926 by the Women's Fashion Institute to be made in one hour.   

Bobbed Hair

Another very obvious fashion feature of this time period was "bobbed"
hair. It was first introduced in America during and just after World War I and popularized
by society dancer Irene Castle. In 1914 she stunned impressed fashionable New York by appearing in a show with bobbed hair. She had acquired it on a European tour where she'd seen fashionable Parisians wearing it.

The impact of bobbed hair and all it was felt to represent was enormous. The popular media of the time is filled with jokes, stories, cartoons, songs, theatrical skits, newspaper articles, and short movies, about bobbed hair.

Complementing bobbed hair was the cloche hat. The outfit on the left that is being worn by Louise Brooks is a marvelous example of late 1920s casual wear (assuming you are wealthy, beautiful, and have good taste).

The fabrics used were silk, cotton, linen, and wool in varying combinations. The twenties were also the dawn of the first man-made materials, rayon most notably. Knit fabrics were also used for outer wear- previous to WWI they were almost exclusively used for underwear. The soft drape of jersey was well suited to the fashions of the twenties. The colours ranged tremendously from bright greens, reds and blues, to subdued pastels. On the whole, the colours and prints used were assertive.