Fast Flapper Style from The Great Gatsby

By Laura Medina

How appropriately timed, Sue Wong's birthday was approximately two weeks ahead of "The Great Gatsby" movie release.  Her birthday party/fashion presentation was a Roarin' Twenties Flapper showcase.

Her long gowns in bia-cut silk reminisce Daisy Buchanan's gown when she arrived at one of Jay Gatsby's parties for the first time, when Jay was trying to woo her away from her husband, Tom Buchanan then Tom chased after classic screen goddess, Marlene Dietrich.

Fortunately, those shenanigans never occur at Ms. Wong's soirees but her birthday celebrations was a jolly time to be had with all.

Flotilla of stars showed up for her, obviously wearing her now "roarin' hot" flapper dresses and gowns at the exuberant, rollicking Jazz Age soiree...

Master Romio Shrestha, film actor Thomas Jane (“The Mist”, “The Punisher” and HBO’s “Hung”), Kelsey Grammer and Kayte Walsh Grammer, (Frazier, Cheers), Ryan McPartlin (NBC’s “Chuck”) with wife actress Danielle Kirlin, Malana Lea (“Olympus Has Fallen”), Lauren Mayhew (Showtime’s “Dexter”), pop girl band Blush, Erin Cahill (ABC’s “Red Widow”), Bethany Joy Lenz (CW’s “One Tree Hill”), Jen Lilley (NBC’s “Days of Our Lives”), Helene Cardona (CW’s “Nikita”), model Natasha Salley (wife of former Los Angeles Laker John Salley), casts from Bravo’s various “Real Housewives” reality shows  and “Shahs of Sunset”, among many other actresses, models and socialites. Renowned Israeli opera singer Michael Peer serenaded Sue and her guests.

They all gee and gaw then bookmarked which dress and which gown they want from

her “The Great Gatsby”-inspired Fall 2013 Collection presentation where models graciously model her creations, dotted among locations in her at her palatial home, The Cedars. 

When asked a week later at Britweek's Finale party, the Downton Abbey Vintage Party, about her designs being all the rage now because of "The Great Gatsby," Sue always thought her fashion and style were always "hot" because she always celebrate and honor classic "Olde Hollywood glamour" from the Twenties and the Thirties; and the style exude from those silver screen goddesses.  Whatever current infatuation the general public has for Flapper Fashion due to "The Great Gatsby," it has always been Sue Wong's signature style, regardless if it's in or out.  Sincerely, she got a hoot when she spotted knock-offs at the Downton Abbey Vintage party, http://luxurist.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-downton-abbey-vintage-party-heart.html,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsU1AojIOnk and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwIIOxYApOo.

"The Great Gatsby" movie launch followed nipping at the heels of The Met's "Punk, From Chaos to Couture" Costume Ball.

At StyleHaus' own "The Great Gatsby" cocktail party, the jewelry line, Jared Jamin meld punk meets the Flapper look because that's how today's Flapper is today. Besides, the real Flappers of the Twenties were about flaunting emancipated the women's movement, the car, living fast and moving fast, embracing the hottest technology;..ok, they flipped a middle finger at the stuffy Victorians.

 

Punk was the same way, flipping the finger at the prevailing mainstream.  Why not combine the both?  StyleHaus guests did.  Sexy, slinky sequin gowns and cocktails dresses swung strands of pearls.  Studded and spiked headbands mixed with black and silver pearl baubles.

If you can't figure how to incorporate a flapper dress or gown in your closet or you don't have the rail-thin Flapper figure, don't fret. The accessories are always "accessible" and much easier to keep as heirlooms.  Jared Jamin's Silver Spiked Headstrong headband, http://jaredjamin.com/silver-spiked-headstrong.html, in handsewn lucite, glass, and spiked studs, fast-forward the Flapper into the 21st Century.

 

No look is complete unless you iced the cake with icing, as in you need the makeup style and hair do to finish the look.

Since makeup was associated with the liberated Flapper, those women were hot about makeup and the new packaging technology for mirrored compacts and bullet-shaped lipsticks that are now de rigeur in the drugstore aisle.

Instead of heaving around heavy metal powder compacts like great-granny, do what the Flappers dreamt about portable, quality makeup she can touch up in the convertible like Daisy Buchanan.

Following Jouer Cosmetic's guide, the background face is a pearly complexion dabbed with a color of deep, rich wine then smoldering the eyes in smoky black or brown.

In the 20’s the Bob was racy and daring hairstyle beloved of flappers & starlets, such as Louise Brooks and the heroine Daisy Buchanan from F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel .However its elegant proportions have stood the test of time and The Bob is still fashionable today as it was in 1920.

Spotted at a host of recent catwalk shows (including Anna Sui), the flapper-style bob hairdo is set to make an even bigger comeback in 2013. Chic and stylish, the bob is a hairstyle that’s suitable for everyone. 


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If you want true historical style inspirations and how shocking it was to bob your hair and breeze around in knee-length, bedazzled, fringed chemise, go to http://www.reminisce.com/1900s-1920s/gatsby-girls-fashions-of-the-roaring-20s and learned how liberating it is to walk and ride the trolley car unescorted.