Jenny Packham Quotes

I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era.

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest.

The '20s are a very interesting period to me.

I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s would be an incredible place to be, dressing up in tuxedos with fancy cars. That sounds incredible.

If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.

Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the rolled-down stockings. They sort of referenced that in 'Cabaret,' when Liza Minnelli was singing 'Mein Herr,' and I love the way she looks in that scene.

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

There's nothing more fun than putting on an old costume and jewelry and being in a house that's decorated from the '20s or '30s or whatever.

I was always interested in the 1920s and the gangster world, in general.

Everyone thinks of the roaring twenties and associates it with decadence and flappers, female sexual liberation, the freedom of women to express themselves, the beginning of feminism. But it was also a time of huge, huge change.

The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.

I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.

It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'

In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.

There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.

The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.

Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.

I used to love the '20s.

I am embarrassingly 1920s in style.

In the 1930s, anyone of any sophisticated status owned a cocktail shaker. Distinctive ones are easy to find.