[BCMA] Art Deco Chic exhibit at the Langley Museum

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The museum is excited to again welcome well-known fashion historians Claus Jahnke and Ivan Sayers, returning for the first time since 2010's "Plastic Fantastic," the 1960's clothing show.  This time they're exhibiting "Art Deco Chic: Women's Fashions of the 1920s & 1930s."

The Art Deco movement had a profound influence on the world of fashion in the 1920s and 1930s, when examples of applied art styles first inspired and reflected the trend for modernism, cubism, and simplicity.  Prior to the First World War (1914-1918), fashionable women presented themselves as a series of ornate curves dressed in complex, tailored garments and often heavily corseted.  After the brutality and disillusionment of the war, practicality, simplicity, and even austerity became the norm, even the ideal.  Figures exaggerated with corsets and padding were replaced by figures hidden under loose-fitting, sack-like garments in the chemise style in the 1920s.  In the 1930s the natural figure re-emerged, but in fashions that echoed the repeated geometry of the Art Deco style.

The pieces chosen reflect the social and political changes that happened during this period.  Items presented will contrast what was happening on the world's fashion scenes in Paris and Berlin with what would have been worn on the streets of Langley Prairie.

All are welcome to an opening reception at the museum on Saturday, May 10 from 2:00 - 4:00 pm.  Admission is free.  For more information, please contact the Langley Centennial Museum at 604.532.3536 or museum at tol.ca<mailto:museum at tol.ca>.

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Kobi Christian | Arts & Heritage Curator
Recreation, Culture, and Parks Division | Township of Langley
Langley Centennial Museum
9135 King Street (PO Box 800), Langley, BC V1M 2S2
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