Get Ready for the Jazz Age Lawn Party With These Vintage Looks

Favoring a tomboyish look, women of the 1920s wore dresses with straight, rather than fitted silhouettes. We recommend a frock with a dropped waist or a tunic with a pleated skirt.

Flashy beads are sure to catch the eye as you Charleston on the dance floor. 

No need to wear a dress if it's not your style: trousers, which suited actress Colleen Moore's active lifestyle, first became fashionable for women in the 1920s, 

As for footwear, you'll want something good for all that dancing. Try a pair of mid-height heeled, strappy shoes so you can be as properly soled as silent film star Clara Bow above.

Designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, who introduced womankind to the concept of the "little black dress" in 1926, was rarely seen without pearls draped around her neck. 

Consider rocking a turban, à la Polish-born Hollywood starlet Pola Negri, who was commonly cast as the femme fatale and claimed Gypsy heritage. 

Top off your outfit with a cloche hat, like the one Mexican-born actress Dolores del Rio is sporting in this photo. Wear it pulled down almost to your eyebrows to achieve true historical accuracy. 

Beneath the hat or turban, a wig will help you channel Louise Brooks, the star of such films as "Pandora's Box" and "Diary of a Lost Girl" who helped popularized the bob haircut.

It's sure to keep you cooler while you sip your cocktails and sit for your vintage portrait. 

Silent film star Buster Keaton, a master of physical comedy, didn't know how to smile in photographs, but he did know how to make a fashionable impression.

Summon your inner preppie with a V-necked sweater like those worn by tennis players Bill Tilden (far right) and Manuel Alonso (far left). 

Keep your face out of the sun with a straw boater hat like comedian W.C. Fields', captured on the set of the film "It's the Old Army Game."