1920s Flappers C.1929: Restored To Life In Amazing Footage
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- A real roaring twenties fashion shoot. AI colorized and upscaled to a 4K 60fps HD video.
On display is a variety of 1920s fashion clothing: cloche hats, fashionable tea dresses and backless gowns. Also modernistic bathing suits, silk beach pajamas and sports dresses for golf and tennis.
Filmed at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo (N.Y.) May 12th 1929.
As a point of reference - Audrey Hepburn was born the previous week on May 4th!
We haven't been able to place names on these girls yet, but anyone who might recognize their grandmother in this film, please let us know.
Today the Albright-Knox Art Gallery houses a formidable lineup of artists, including Van Gogh, Picasso, Renoir, Monet,and Matisse.
Published by GlamourDaze with the kind permission of the University of South Carolina.
AI restoration by GlamourDaze.com
Filmed on May 12th, 1929.
Evening gowns will be backless this summer. (Fox News Story D0346...D0349.) Fox Movietone News Collection.
Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.
The Film was enhanced using state-of-the-art Neural networks.
1. Original print cleaned and denoised.
2. Frames per second increased from 24 fps to 60 fps
3. Color applied using Deep Exemplar-based Video Colorization and Deoldify
4. Video resolution AI upscaled from 480p to 4K.
5. Original silent movie enhanced with an immersive soundtrack.
For more information on Deep Exemplar-based Video Colorization - see:
arxiv.org/abs/...
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It's funny because I'm a old guy who doesn't care much for fashion, but I love your videos and how they so vividly transport you to another time. I look forward very much to new ones coming out.
Me too!
I hope you live many years more and to enjoy these videos. Greetings from southamerica Mr. James
It is weird to me because I'm pretty old as well so this seems such a long time ago but also it was only about 30 years before I was born.
Ohh how time flies.
My aunt was a flapper. Born in 1900 died 1970. Lived in Chicago 1920s. Stories she would tell about speakeasies, delivering booze in the loop. Think she was a bit of a wild girl.
Chicago native here!!! That's awesome to hear
I’m so glad she shared her stories with you! Sounds like she was a real character. 🥂
Did you inherit any of her clothes jewelry or hats?
@@bwiseok my dad sold off most everything after her death. One thing she said Capone “was the nicest man” . He would sit at their table tell jokes and socialize with customers. Fascinating as a child to hear these stories.
Sam, your Aunt sounds like fun!
Seeing this in color definitely gives new perspective to the fashion of that time.
Yes indeed ❣️
Its not real colorizing BW film is totally BULLSHIT !!!
The Klan robes looked good in the 1920s also.
They are guessing on the colours. So I would dial the perspective back a notch. :)
@@robrunstedler6953 I think those colors are far more vivid than I think would be possible at the time, must less that would be fashionable.
100 years ago... And they were so full of youth, hope, dreams, and ambitions! You can't help but to hope that life turned out to be was all that they wished for.
I always, think that too!
And this was just a few months before the big stock market crash that began the Great Depression. Not meaning to put a damper on your sentiment. Only that these women had to weather that to get past it and on to better times.
I think of that too 😌
Wow! 100 years ago! Puts it in perspective .
This group of ladies lived through WW 1, the stock market meltdown which lead to the Depression of the thirties, and WW2. They didn't get what they wished for but life is never fair.
I will never understand why I am so fascinated and mesmerized by the past. It seems like two different worlds entirely.
I just find it funny how wrong most people’s idea of 20s fashion is. This was such a nice way to see what authentic flapper fashion was like
You are totally right, some young women wear minidresses and stilettos thinking that they look like flappers in the 20s.
@@desireepetitdemurat8660 The shoes make a difference. Stilettos - NO!. Love the shoes they are wearing especially the ones with instep straps. Even as a teen I thought the shoes from the 20s were very cool.
@@auapplemac1976 i totally agree with you!
Agreed. Of course some evening wear was also heavily beaded with fringe (fabric or bead strings), but there was so much use of chiffon and florals and sportswear that’s almost forgotten. Not to mention robe de style - a totally different cool silhouette. A lot of the modern costume versions of flapper dresses draw from 1960s Hollywood costumes that were quick / less labor-intensive, tighter fitting, and jazzed up with some cheap, fun fringe. Fabulous, but nothing like these pieces of art!
A lot of what has been perceived as 1920s era fashion are costumes from performers of the era. What we see here is very modern fashion for the era and certainly inspired by Chanel who was already designing and revolutionizing women's fashion in Paris.
The sound dub with speaking and traffic etc., is the best. For me , that's what makes it so 'real'. Well done - love this channel. Thank you.
Flappers are really thought provoking when you consider their astonishing departure in style from what had been the aesthetics of clothing style for women just a few years before. Thanks for posting!
Flappers were freed from the stultifying constraints of the wasp girdle and strangulating bras. Then, along came the 50s...
The colouring of that green dress was stunning. Well done.
Nah, any colour but green.
Here here!!
That turquoise green/blue dress, I agree!
The colouring is an arsenic compound, quite deadly.
With all due respect! People should understand that these are AI generated colours! Not the colour palettes done by humans. That is why here it's a limited representation. And this is because of the free services provided by a particular company which runs these AI generated software. The paid services are much more better than this colour generated presentation.
My grandmother was born in 1920. She told me she remembered her older sisters dressing up in flapper fashion to go out on the town. This was supremely cool to my young ears. And those older sisters remained cool til the end. I remember seeing them in the mid-70’s, elegant and cool still, they knew how to dress: the dress, the hair, the makeup, the hat, the bag, the gloves. Even as a kid I knew I was in the presence of strong and intelligent ladies with an interesting past. ☺️
They all looked so beautiful
I prefer the 1940's look of Lauren Bacall, that cheesecake look with curled bangs up front, a curl to the back under-tuck.
There is nothing left of them.
Do not just look at one or two of them. Some pull a rather sour face.
The girl in blue at 0:23 is like...."pfft...I'm too classy for these girls"
john alt,
And without a lick of plastic surgery!
I wanna be in their friend group! I love the clothes, I wish we could bring back 1920's fashion now in the 2020's!
I've always loved this style and have worn it in different variations throughout the decades. NEVER giving up my Mary Janes! 😍
Me too
I love all this and that era,just gorgeous and furnishings as well. The fashion today's clothes? Mm sadly not a patch. 😢
I have a pair of Clarks Mary Janes that I swear I could run a marathon in, and they look great :)
Mary Jane style shoes are very sexy, I love seeing a girl in a pair! 👡👠
@@Chahlie that's fantastic to hear Heather! Good to hear from a fellow Mary Jane lover! 👠👡
My great grandmother grew up near Chicago and wanted to be a flapper girl! But her mother died when she was 11 so she had to become her 5 brothers mom and care for her dad and the farm. She was the strongest woman I ever saw and never complained once about all she went through! Amazing incredible woman!
Thx for sharing, great story!
That’s exactly how my grandmother was. Went through a lot of turmoil during that time period, but never heard her complain and speak ill of any of it.
So inspiring ! 💪 :)
Where near Chicago? I grew up and live near Chicago now.
Too bad more people today aren’t like your great-grandmother. We live in a very selfish, narcissistic time now.
They are beautiful, it’s sad when you see old clips like thus snd it’s full of life and zest and you know everyone is gone.
I can’t believe they don’t exist any more .
What a lovely and great beautiful models .
I thought "wow, the girl with the skirt above the knee sure was brave" till I realised they were flowy shorts.
They were sports outfits!
Flappers did wear skirts above the knee. The daring ones even put rouge on their knees to call attention to them. Some even went without stockings in hot weather -- shock horror!😄
@@annainspain5176 They aren't even flappers, this is just walking street fashion in urban zones.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar some of them may have also been flappers. Did you ask any of them? I did.
I am amazed at how genuine these dresses look. It's like travelling in a time machine.
That’s because they ARE genuine!
What I love is that I've seen photos of my Grandma wearing clothes (especially hats) like these, but now I can see her "alive" in that time. Lovely! Thank you!
Had she ever told you something about that time ? :0
Mine too. She wore what looked like sport skirts to the day she died around 1980! Now I get it!
Can't believe this was 100 years ago, the clothes look kind of modern but with a different silhouette.
Edit: I stg, quit telling me it's 92 years, I fucking know, And I knew when I typed this comment. It's called "Rounding" Google it💀
92 years.
Holy moly. I feel old.
92 years
@@magupico6850 No really?😱
@@Patriot1967ml No really?😱
I don’t care much for fashion today but I love these clothes, I’ve always loved vintage styles from the 20s, 30s, 40s and hippie culture.
Absolutely Gorgeous and Chic as it was back in the day. I'll take the light blue frock with the hip belt. Ty for posting!
They look FANTASTIC! And just adorable.
I love the 1920's and you have really captured the style (colours) and feel of the time plus the ambiance on this video is so perfect. My favourite video that you have done. Thank you 🐾
ditto
In Paris around 1900 and before, there were no radios, no tv's, no telephones, no internet. The only thing they could do was to walk around the city in their glamorous clothes. The would sit and chat at their outdoor cafés all day and hang out in the French Parks. That's why there are still so many outdoor restaurants in Paris, and Fashion Shows. Around this era, everyday, while at the daily walk, you were really in a fashion show. The sidewalk walk, was your cat walk. Ou La La.
You could read a book or newspaper. Plays and concerts.
@@treetopjones737 Olié
That makes a lot of sense
my partner just received photos of his mother from a cousin that archives the family artifacts, from what I see here, she was a very well dressed lady for living out in the dusty hills of Idaho.
How wonderful for your partner. I bet those ladies really had to take extra care of their clothes with the dust etc. 💜🇬🇧
The dresses from 1:21 to 2:04 are absolutely drop-dead gorgeous, the colors and the way they drape on their bodies. This would have been around the time my grandmother got married; her wedding picture is stunning and so very classy but very different in style from most wedding pictures... in it she's standing slightly behind/to the side of my seated grandfather looking so classicly beautiful with an incredibly sweet expression on her face (in front of gorgeous french doors with a fantastic view outside). He is looking so handsome and very pleased with himself. Such a cool video!!!
I think they drape on their bodies so well because the flapper look was flat butt and no breasts. Mannequins never had big breasts, butts, hips. This is so the clothes just fall naturally, "hang."
well, the colors were probably guessed by whoever colorized the footage.
I have photos of my grandmother dressed like these beautiful ladies ! 💖💖💖💖
What a fabulous video,of a time gone by.The fashion was so glamorous! Beautiful footage❤
Love the fact that the models were normal women. Realistic bodies and ordinary faces.
No plastic surgery or butt implants. Lol
They were either flat chested in that style or bound their breasts. Fashion has never favored every body type.
I love seeing untouched smiles, crooked teeth and all! So much more interesting than the perfectly white and straight teeth of today.
@@cara3647 What an ignorant comment. The country was majority white and heavy people were not the norm -- if the obesity rate was 10% in 1950, imagine how much lower it was 20 years earlier, after a world war. You might as well go to a video on historic Chinese clothing and go, "They're all so Asian and skinny, waaah!"
@@AI-ch3if Yeah, Cara sounds like she’d be the life of every party. If she hears someone remark on the beautiful buffet table, Cara would be the one saying "imagine how it looks in your stomach." Her remark about fashion being mysogynistic-yeah, if fashion hated women so much, why did they use female models? Plus she’s totally ignorant of the demographics in North America and Europe at the time. What a joyful person to be around, eh? 🤣
I loved the mix of the black and white background and the bright colours used using today’s technologies . giving these woman a whole new lease of life even though they have sadly passed away a long time ago this is GREAT STUFF 👍🏻
And then a year later the style completely changed to the 1930s slim fitting, bias cut silhouette.
Omomo that change in style was a necessity because of the great depression that started at the end of 1929. If not for the great depression, I wonder if the styles would have changed? I guess we'll never know!
@@jamesallen3929 depression? Why they got depression?
@@deardove1710 no I was talking about the economic depression worldwide that occurred in 1929 that last into world war 2
@@jamesallen3929 The change in fashions was in the works well before the crash. Check out Vogue's cover for Aug 3, 1929.
@@johnvonundzu2170 or 1890s cut lines for outfits. Its not like the past up and disappears when a new silhouette becomes the gunnery clide of peoples fortés.
I love 20's fashion!
Love the clothing styles, the ladies look wonderful.
Betty White was just a kid when these young ladies were walking about
I love their shoes. Comfortable but still feminine.
My god...93 years ago....almost 100 years😰
Those women were so elegant, pure and gorgeous😍😍
Looking at their smiles and hearing the laughter conveys happiness.
...and to think they are gone😔
In the prime of their lives and theyre all gone now
This really brings history close. 1929 is the year my great-grandmother died, my grandpa was only just 2 years old. He passed away last year at 93 and it brought a lot of peace thinking of him finally getting to see his mother again.
Glamourdaze, SUPER, more colours, more textures, more clarity, perfection. Amazing, amazing
Just stunning so chic the outfits so lovely just love the 1920’s fashion fabulous😍😍❤️❤️
The dude in the car 😂
I didn't want this video to end!!! Filmed one year to the day before my mother was born....wow!
My grandma was a flapper. We have many lovely pictures of her. Miss you so much grandma! Enjoyable video!
Amazing to think how old this is, so fresh. I was half expecting one of the girls to be checking her phone
That green dress is absolutely amazing!
Lf R:Looks like satin.I seldom wear green,but would surely have tried that one on.
I enjoy all your enhanced videos, but this one is particularly stunning.
Some of these women look soft in the face, others have this look like, ya, my mamma crossed the great plains and fought the wild in a wagon, oxen, salt pork and with guns and such.
The “You Tired?” “Oh I’m dead,” really hits different now 😂🥺
Absolutely gorgeous!! These styles are beautiful, very feminine but assertive too. As well as mostly understated, not extreme and very wearable.
The unoldifying technology is getting better each year! This is awesome.
I can hardly wait until the next level of tech. I swear, seeing this stuff in colour makes that period so much more real than in regular black and white.
This is a modified process of colorization, not regular, AI could never understand this.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar yeah, sure. Ok
Your videos are the closest thing to time travel, brilliant Foley and colourings.
Don‘t know why, but these kind of filmsnaps make my eyes teary. I am touched of this awareness that they were young and probably aren t alive anymore..
My own Dad was born in late 1901 so he would have been 27yrs old at this time. Imagine the thrill of being a young man, single, with a car like that and seeing sweet, sweet 'Flappers' like this out and about!
Damn!!! This color is EXCELLENT!!! Far superior to the garbage colorization of the past few years. KUDOS!!!
This is a formidable video. The models are very pretty -- realistic pretty. The clothing is superb. My favorite era.
I love the way you create sound for these silent films.
So nice to imagine a world where people out in public are engaging each other instead of staring at their smartphones.
Thank you for your fabulous work and giving these women and that amazing fashion the credit they deserve! I always thought 1920s were amazing but I couldn't imagine this beautiful until I saw it in color! Thank you!
You know what I love about that era? The confidence these women had; they look happy. Not wearing a lot of makeup, all different but lovely in their own way. Love it.
So elegant. Nothing today can compare.
I love the Color and AI. They are real people. Without it, they look so flat.
Not being a 100lbs overweight, with a huge azz kind of gives you that flat look.
Hate flappers in silent films yet the fabrics colors and real women make this so wonderful. You are a domestic historian and a top Internet area!
Mom would’ve just turned three years old. She’s 96 now and doing just fine.
Such chic young ladies! Love this films from the past
Interesting time in fashion. You can see in one or two of the outfits that the waistline is creeping up again from its on-the-hip heyday in the mid 20s. Within 2 years belts would be back at the natural waist for the first time in a decade.
Good. Yes, it was an interesting time, but (in my opinion) not very flattering. If you ever watched the newest "Great Gatsby," you'll notice that they took artistic license with Daisy's outfits and made the top part more form-fitting than the actual 1920s look, because the potato sack look is just not that attractive.
Belts were at the natural waist within six months! Drop waists were history by 1930.
Colorizing these films really gives you a sense of what it was like to live back then
Cute ! 😍
Thank you for enhancing the images.
What fantastic outfits! I'd wear 90% of them today.
Hi S J, so would I - that's when ladies knew how to dress, with grace and style !
@@jeanlilymanwaring7125 The funniest part was, they were not seen as ladies back then. Just a little over a decade before this footage was created, people were still livinging in the Edwardian period, so what the flappers did were seen as very unladylike.
Today, those types of loose clothing that just hangs on the body is what fashion gurus would call "modern office chic". And a lot of women do tend to wear parts of clothes like that (i.e loose shirts or skirts) into the office especially during the summer.
I love normal women modeling and clothing for various everyday uses instead of the high-end concept junk nowadays.
I was surprised to see a flapper wearing shorts. I love the pink/ purplish dress on the other flapper.
Their clothes and accesdories were beautiful!
👗🧤👜👠📿👒💍
So chic, my goodness! The diaphanous hems, art deco patterns, cloche and other headdresses and those perfect pin curls! I love how women looked so put together, even in casual dress! But alas, that effort was not sustainable for busy, working women!
My great grandma dressed like a flapper. Her name was Birdie LOL
So many of these dresses were designed and sewn at home. Ready to wear was expensive and a new idea. There were lots of patterns available through the magazines. So the tried and true way was to make it yourself. It's makes those outfits even more fabulous, when you know that.
Nice try, these were factory manufactured or sewn in a shop. Why is the existence of machinery then, such a lowtrodden difficult concept for people to grasp
Yeah, no. These dresses were definitely from a professional fashion house being modelled by professional models (in the video) on a photoshoot for some professional fashion magazine like Vogue.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar I'm thinking she meant the garments that the average everyday young woman wore were prob made by hand. The ready to wear garments may have been too pricey for the average person. I hope whatever is making you bitter, gets better 😂
That fashion was so radically different than 10 years before that. They used to walk in corsets and layers of skirts. 1920s style must have been so modern back then
Clothes of 93 years ago which look so stylish and classic that a lady could wear any of those outfits shown in the video today at a nice event for the afternoon. I would wear them!
Beautiful work on the colourisation, speed, and background sounds.
mesmerizing
The fabric of those dresses is beautiful 😍
I didn’t see a good fabric for years!
And the quality 👍
We've become way too casual these days. They look so classy back then. Love the audio with them and the colors make those dresses come alive. Thank you! You're doing a great job!
These are wealthy ladies the regular folk dont dress like this
They are obviously dressed up to model the clothes. Every day people had to work and most jobs for poor women weren't glamorous. Real life is not a 1950s house ad where they expected women to vacuum the house in heels, a full skirt, and makeup.
These outfits look pretty casual to me. Especially when you compare them to the Elizabethan dresses just a decade before this in the 1910's.
The time, the era! The sensational moment of women's clothing recorded in the moment!!
So beautiful, but the struggles of just being a beautiful women a 100 years ago.
Underwear, periods, not existing without a "Husband", such as bank accounts, ownership of property, the requirement to have a "man" in your life to sign things...
Hindsight is a beautiful thing. But grateful for these women who carved the pathway for what l can do on my own today!!
Plus look gorgeous with beautiful clothes...
Women still have periods?
@@annainspain5176
Yep realise that but are you prepared to wash the "Rags" 100 yeaes ago at the time.
"The belt" with throw away sanitary napkins only came in the 60s.
And the ladies of the day were made to wash all in private as delicate mens eyes wouldn't have coped.
The required needs for preping for periods is what l was referring to.
Would have hated every second scrubbing sorting preping every month ..😱😖
What fashionable young ladies ❣️
Hello - where did they all go ?
@@jeanlilymanwaring7125 They're dead now.
@@RazorFriendly are you?
You do such an awesome job. (Pink dress and shoes close up, about 3/4 through video, have two different pinks on shoes, though. 😍)
I would wear quite a few of those outfits today .Gorgeous!
That's almost insult, I'm sure the clothing owner would have loved to hear that you might have considered wearing his/her expensive quality outfits.
I have never met my grandmother. She died so young. She was probably a young girl during the 20th. So when I see those young girls and they are so beautiful and fashionable, just like my grandmother, but she was in old photos 📸 in black and white, so when I see the video I get so excited 😢 , I want to shout Grandma I am here, I am your grandaughter, even though we have never met, we all in our family, we still remember you. We haven't forget you. We love you. You are still part of our life. Efrat. Israel 💕
The birth of Modernist fashion.
The work you do on these videos is incredible! Please keep posting them! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
So elegant! Relaxed, free and confident.
Amazing! We still see 1920's colors, but also the florals from the next decade, and the silk dress too!
That was primarily the 1910s and 1920s that offered the floral era, the 1930's became the icon of taffeta and tweed suits.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar oh really? Actually taffeta was super popular in the 1800s.
Wow 🌟🌟😍👌 espectacular bellísimo
The fabric of all of the clothing is Gorgeous!
I can't handle the sleek and fine quality of their garments. Amazingly beautiful 🌟
Very awesome to watch. A time capsule all these old videos are. Thank you for making and sharing,
I love hearing the chit chat and random comments, and background noises. Transports you back 100 years! Was a bit creepy hearing that one woman say "I'm dead" though...
One of the girls asked if she was tired and she said "I'm dead".
I so loved this!! I don't know where to begin!! Just found your channel and love it..I loved seeing the dresses.. the hair styles remind me so much of my Grand mom who I loved so much..
In these videos I always look for people, how old could they be, what their lives might have been like, how did they age, when did they die and how? Would be great to see their saddest and happiest moments in their lives.
And it just makes me sad to know that those beautiful faces don't exist anymore and all of them are just dust and bones. Shit, It's frightening!
you next
@@safffff1000 you first
my father was just shy of 40 when i was born which meant when i was growing up he was the same age as most of my friends grandfathers, and i am about to turn 50 in a couple months. and this is still older than when my father was born in 1933, that always fascinates me, wondering if his mother may have been like this. when i was growing up we moved in for a while with her and my step grandfather and my aunt Sally, my grandmother and Aunt Sally were so much older than me and there is no polite way to put it but i swear my Aunt Sally looked JUST like the actress that was in 'Throw Mama From The Train". and i remember one time when i was probably around 7 and i was being bad and exploring around the house where i shouldnt have been and i found some old pictures of my Aunt Sally in her dresser. it was old B&W pictures of her wearing Flapper style clothes and all made up and smiling and she was absolutely beautiful, i was absolutely shocked that that was her, of course coming on 50 now i cant believe how much better looking i was just 10 short years ago.
My gran was a flapper. She had a glorious time in Chicago.
Wonderful work. So great to see this!