Butterick skirt pattern 2096, with a separate bodice. January 1920.
While looking at those orange and black outfits from the early twenties, I realized that the skirt with added lace cascades at the sides was really rather interesting.
Butterick skirt pattern 2096, from Delineator, February 1920.
I have seen stranger ideas stolen and presented on fashion runways!
And I found more of them.
Butterick skirt 2166, also from February 1920.
A version for misses in their teens. Butterick dress #2017. It’s shorter, and the bodice is attached.
These styles come from a brief period when hips were widened, but not to make the waist look tiny. These dresses (or skirts) are made from bulkier fabrics.
Butterick skirt 2056 at left and 2100 at right.
Back views:
Bodice 2056 with skirt 2046, and dress 2100 (in green above.)
Back to variations on Skirt 2096:
Skirt 2096 with lace cascades. And tassels.
Detail, Butterick skirt #2096, without lace. Self fabric, lace, chiffon, or tulle could be used.
“The straight skirt is two piece with draped side frills.”
Skirt 2096, back view of one version.
Above, Skirt 2096 as described in February 1920.
This is also skirt 2096, but made from a heavier fabric.
For full glamour, this is a different skirt, #2166:
Skirt 2166, detail.
A different version of #2166:
This looks very different from the other version of #2166.
Butterick skirt #2166 does seem to have an “apron” rather than cascades inserted into the side seam.
Above, description of Skirt 2166.
And, while Butterick suggested that real glamour was for adults…
Adult style, using skirt 2166.
… Teenaged “misses” had their own version of the skirt with flounces at the sides:
Butterick dress 2107 for teens and small women. Delineator, March 1920.
This shortened version, scaled for petites, is worn with “Tango slippers,” sometimes called “Tango Boots.”
Tango slippers, 1920.
Kick up your heels!
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