Edwardian Girls

[Deb545]

Thanks for answering Aaron!

[Deb545]

Aaron, another little masterpiece video from you! You're wonderful! I love the way we jump ahead 20 years to see the change in the styles and you always have the perfect music for each video. Do you mind if I ask how old you are? Are you a female? Just curious as Aaron can also be a maculine name. Keep up the excellent work! A fan from Montreal, Canada.

[Aaron1912]

Thanks. I am 27 years old and I'm a guy. I have been interested in the Edwardian era since I was 8 years old.

[lovemeloveyou011]

@Aaron1912 hey I really like the song you used for the 1920's part of the clip 'Just Imagine'? But I can't find it anywhere at all :( Who made/sang that song?

[Aaron1912]

The Charleston Chasers. You can download the song for free on their website.

[lovemeloveyou011]

@Aaron1912 Wonderful, thanky ou very much! I love your vids too :)

[MPL029]

so many in the beginning seem sooo self conscious...cant even look directly into the camera

[batucada358]

For the Edwardian women, thank God scissors were invented as well as those elaborate hats...I love that era and even the victorian era, but some of those hairdo's were a HAM.

[oOAndrewsOo]

Why woman's today are not so pretty like that ones? i think i born in the wrong time... JS... i hate the modernity... -_-

[MrGotsquashed]

The lady @ 1:00 is freakin' HOT!

[1860george]

the clothes and hairstyles from the victorian and edwardian era were beautiful thats why bryan ferry always used girls from those eras on his album covers.

[lamujermaslinda]

i wonder if they shaved their armpits in that era

[Avellania]

The first lady looks a lot like my grandmother in her wedding picture. But it can't be her (she was not yet born then) or any of my relatives (my family never lived in Britain).

[angelateeng]

Were those real hair? They look so thick! How did they manage to create all those hairstyles?

[TheJenr8tr]

@angelateeng Often it was their real hair because women seldom cut it in those days, but they also made rolls or cushions of their own hair combings called "rats" to boost the height and fullness of some of those hair-dos. My grandmother, who was born in the 1880's & had her children in her 40's said that she would use ratted hair to make the soft fullness at the crown of her hair with the bun on top.

[TheAolele]

The women were confident of their allure, the glory of their femininity artfully accentuated and modestly cloaked to create maddening fantasies in men's minds and hearts. A glance over a fan, a fugitive smile and a man's heart was pounding with anticipation. It was a time when kisses were not given carelessly, nor caresses. No wonder men treasured a lady's lost glove or a flower from her hair, for the mere thought of it nestling against her skin was stolen, forbidden paradise...

[TheJenr8tr]

@TheAolele Yes, but the corsets made it hard to breathe!

[tjenahoj]

So this is where they got the inpiration for all those funky hairdoos in the new Star Wars movies!

[victorbrunswick]

@tjenahoj Princess Leia's cinnamon roll hairdo was based on an early to mid-Victorian style from the 1830s -1840s.

[jaykay98789]

thx for this video it helped me just write a story for this skool thing thx

[TheCoreyJ1993]

This is colored! :D :D Sweet!!

[setanta1986]

And then the First World War came and ruined fashion!

[Zeggle]

Female beauty looking as good then as today ;-)

[stokepogue]

It'd be cool if movies today were filmed in this aesthetic look. But I'm hopeful that future domestic computers and software will be able to simulate this cinematographic look perfectly.

[monka1236]

This video is so magical! I was born in wrong era!

Thanks for posting

[bilbobaggins991164]

I really love this video. What a contrast!

[bilbobaggins991164]

I really love this video. What a contrast!

[Cance251]

What year did they film this?

[Miyuuko]

I love Edwardian girls AND flappers!!!! Both wonderful in their own right

[HerrGobel]

Ah, the good old Edwardian days. So idylic and wonderful! Can you imagine how fun it must've been to live then (if you were of means)? Beautiful girls, dance halls, music halls, a sense of adventure facilitated by new, primitive technologies, aesthetic magnificance, etc.! What ever happened to the suit? The dress (that extends below the knee)? The hat? Proper dancing? Social standards? Ambition? Civic honor? National pride (with justification)? All dead, and what a shame it is.

[wasp9]

@HerrGobel Amen, brother. Funny how people think the suit and tie is a symbol of "opression". I'd wear a suit every day if I could.

[nextren]

This video should end by flashing forward to today - to show the HORRIBLE females we have to put up with, Rihanna, Alicia Keys, etc. With hip-hop for background sounds.

[ARTEMISWILDE]

Aaron, Thanks so much for this gorgeous video - a fashion feast for the eyes!

[ajgolfer1]

huge diiference between edwardian mothers and their flapper daughters thier mothers must have gone nuts

[artsylovelylady]

Wow. Huge transformation between 1908 and 2028 at 2:46. I guess a world war must have sped it up. The two generations couldn't look more different. It is as though the daughters had little in common with their mothers in 1928 and they were trying their hardest to turn the page.

[1mediaseeker]

love the video. love the music.

[paulj0557]

Some of you babes still look interesting, but unfortunately many women of today confuse their subtle physical beauty and unique mannerisms with being unimportant in comparison to over the top big breasts and bitchiness. Women are complicated. I bet that these women in the films might have been royal bitches, but there was a pleasantness and femininity that simply does not exist today. I'd date one of these sweeties in a second.

[1mediaseeker]

@paulj0557 love your assumptions.

[bobbobato]

Ha anyone else noticed how fashion in the last few months has gotten surprisingly similar to clothing from the early 1910s? There's the same basic colours, the same belted figure, the little frump on the legs even.

[BronxRapper]

@bobbobato I love the period 1800-1920s. I tend to think that we are in 1910 instead of 2010 ;D

[glamourdaze]

lovely video. Another great post from the vintage supremo of Youtube !

[Music2Forever]

0:22 is my favorite

[GoldenSilents]

This is my favorite video from the Great Aaron. :)

-- Jill

[ArcanoTre]

Splendido, suggestivo video. GRAZIE!

[blumenthol]

nice but utter bullshit - did they have film capabilities like this then? No. I think this film is modern done

[Aaron1912]

So you have never seen a silent movie before? Movie cameras have been around since the 1880's. Colour film has been around since the 1900's. There were more films recorded in the 1910's and 1920's than at any other time in filming history.

[aachelabelaaron]

@Aaron1912 in the future they might say the same about the numbers of videos put online now =C

[pookoos]

@blumenthol No I don't agree with you. This looks perfectly period to me. The most telling feature is perhaps that the girls are not emaciated and the beauty standard was far more natural and not surgically altered or collagen induced. Look at their lips and noses. Whenever you see modern repros of this time period they always make the mistake of using models that fit today's rather goofy magazine standards and they stick out rather badly.

[loyalqueen]

@blumenthol what a false statement.

[jaykay98789]

@blumenthol omg someone needs a history lesson gosh even i knew the had movie recorders back then well not in the 1900s but i knew about 1930s

[tinofilipino]

Edwardian fashion seems to have been heavily influenced by the fashion of the Regency era a century prior. It makes a similar homage to Greco-Roman style.

[bobinobaker]

Tja vor 100 Jahren sahen die "Models" aber noch viel natürlicher aus.Nicht so wie heute wo jedes Model eine Bohnenstange sein muß.

Ein sehr interessanter Filmbeitrag und die Musik passt auch wunderbar....vielen Dank dafür aus Berlin..!!

[anonerapper]

This is amazing, man. In da future people will look our fashion videos and they will say "2010 rappers looked so nice and beautiful... in comparison with the present day when people look horrible"

[beggo321]

Hmmm I wonder what makes those girls rotate?

probably some guy 6 feet under ground being constantly whipped while he pushes a long wooden beam attached to the conveyer.

[1martuska]

Food was cooked in those days and not processed the way it is today . There were no carsogenics in their food so they looked alot healthier than the women today. Cancer wasen't killing every 4th person like it is today. Women were able to have babies with no visits to fertility clinics or sperm banks. It was a differant way of life, and a better one .

[hawkmoon03111951]

Don't be so sure. At the turn of the century the British army was horrified at the vast numbers of volunteers for the Boer war that were unfit to be enlisted. Rookeries (slums) with open cess pits were rife in the cities. Yes life was great for the rich few. For most, life was a constant struggle.

[activeplum]

Not disregarding some obvious sad facts that hawkmoon mentioned, what you are saying about cancer is very, very true indeed. Perhaps, it is what matters most.

[friendsfamilyaccount]

@1martuska Maybe and maybe not. I have a wonderful 1901 medical book ; you wouldn't believe the diseases people perished from. Foods actually were horrendously altered and were very unpure before the pure foods acts at the turn of the century. Check out the book "The Good Old Days, They Were Terrible." Yes, less cancer, but diphtheria, scarlet fever, polio, etc. were rampant. Child mortality was horrendously high; no antibiotics, etc. In many ways better, in many ways not.

[19myself91]

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like girls till the 1930s always seemed to have a double chin?

[KassurinReiChan]

Because they didn't starve themselves like women do now.

[JBluver18]

It wasn't as much that they had a double chin as a rounder face. That's because back then, a softer, rounder, delicate face was seen as much more desirable. Women with strong chins were seen as less attractive.

[SuezWSuezW]

Very interesting! Thanks!

[BCravenO4]

Aaron1912,

What songs have you used here? They sound so familiar but I can't put a name to them.

[Aaron1912]

Emperor Waltz and Just Imagine

[Sertila]

danubio azul?

[BCravenO4]

No jaja Pero... Gracias :)

La musica es "Emperor Waltz" y "Just Imagine"- Aaron1912

[Monsieurschmuetz]

Very cute fashion display especially the girl from 1:29 onward. But why a viennese waltz? Why not something from Elgar like "Pomp and Circumstances"? Wouldn´t it better suits Edwardian age?

[bigcity233]

She was a great talent! - a brilliant pianist -classically trained. Seeing Hildegarde has a young woman is an extremely rare treat!

[ber784]

Great stuff, please keep it coming.

[JazzAgeFlapperGirl]

Beautiful era xx

[TheBombson]

gorgeous,and i too love to see all this elegance tht is gone today,but i'm hoping it wll come again ;)

oh and i must say i hate the fur,i dont blame the people though,those were different times.

[PonderingPig]

Absolutest wonderful. But what is it? Is the footage you worked with actually from the twenties, or more recent? It looks authentic, but the color tint and the smooth motion makes me wonder. No matter what it is, tho - it's charming. Well done.

[classicalgirl01]

Well Done! Two of my favourite eras, the Edwardian and the Roaring Twenties. Does anybody else find it so interesting that in such a little time, morals,values,fashion changed so much. How very intriguing.

[Portis1Luv]

If women dressed this way now I think they'd be suprised as to how many men would reciprocate. I know I'd go gaga.

[OS253]

Let me tell you, women of the old days were elegant and sweet. They don't flaunt their breast implants or sit with their legs wide open like today's women. Madonna and Britney Spears are prime examples. They're really vulgar and offensive to many people.

[Portis1Luv]

I'd have to agree with you. I find it a huge turn off when a woman dresses like a prostitute. Sophia Loren, arguably one of the most beautiful ladies of modern times said, "Sexiness is 50% what you've got, and 50% of what people think you've got."

[owtatowttowt]

@OS253 too true, modren women have become discuting sluts would go back in time any day to when women were real & honest like my Great Gramma. (1901-1993)

[HyQS]

@OS253 Yes, you are right. I never saw such gracefull women than in movies or at pictures of the "good old days".

[HyQS]

@OS253 Yes, you are right. I never saw such gracefull women than in movies or at pictures of the "good old days".s

[gatheringleaves]

@OS253

So true

[pookoos]

@Portis1Luv Dunno about that... I ALWAYS wear dresses and skirts with a modified old fashioned style (period boots and shoes too)... I just feel more comfy in "nice" old fashioned and vintage silk, velvet, organza etc. And the guys around me still wear sweatpants and Budweiser tee shirts. Oh what I'd give to meet a classy man in decent trousers.

[jandtsmom]

@Portis1Luv

Problem is, girls are not being brought up anymore to 'act like ladies'.

[Persphonefallen]

Aaron1912 you done it again.

What a charming look in the past. This is going in to the favorites and maybe I'll try to pull of the look myself.

[yes4albert]

Gorgeous styles. I love the headpieces from the Edwardian era. I love the era period.

[daydreamer1991white]

These are so beautiful! I can't believe I was born into this century when I could have been born into that. Thank you. :)

[HarborGuy]

"Falls" and hair Laqure were used and hair was very long ......the hour-glass was the style.......Hat pin were used in the nickel movies for protection I'm told. lol.......For not having many outfits I am sure these were their Sunday Best. or the very "well-to-do".

[toughcrowd94]

It's called a maid. The ladies who didn't have money for a maid had simpler styles.

[TreblePop]

It's all very pretty but did most women actually have the time and money to do this? I'm referring to the hairstyles, especially. They look pretty labor intensive.

[johannahlarsen]

so elegant!

it's really too bad that if somebody tried to seriously wear such clothes in this century, they'd likely be put down and called crazy.

maybe i'll try to recreate some of those hair styles.

[NoName21234]

and all that without hairspray  ;)

[TheSunRecords]

Well, the art nouveau style was elegant.

[luvebug21]

The hair-do looks very artistic yet complicated,um..but i like it alot .

[luvebug21]

Yes yes and yeas*_*

[OdeToNecrophilia]

Very interesting!!!

[mysticmagic4760]

I love this video! Very beautiful & great fun to watch!