Is this dress from the 1920s?

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Hi!

I found this great dress at a flea market buried in the bottom of a box. I haven't dealt too much with garments from the 20s and would appreciate some help figuring out when it's from.

The dress has great beadwork and looks to be made from silk chiffon (at least, that's what it looks like to me). There are 3 rows of snaps on the top of each sleeve (dress pulls over head). Please note – the hem in the photo is longer in the back than in the front (the seam detail at the waist needs to retacked in the back).

Many thanks for your help!
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It has a very Deco feel to it, I feel the bead work look old enoght to be 20's / 30 I have a feeling it's more to the end of the 20's becuse of the hem line.
 
It definitely looks 20s to me. You should let it out in the center, someone appears to have taken it up from there. They probably wanted to wear it as a costume and is there
is so much beading at the bottom, it looks like they chose to take it up from the center.

Nice find at the flea market!
 
I agree that the skirt has been raised as was often done in the middle to later 20s when hemlines rose and ladies wanted to keep wearing their early 20s long beaded dresses. One key to the alteration is the way the beading is interrupted by the tuck. If you take the tuck out the rest of the way it will hang correctly and the beading will all be seen correctly. I would think earlier 20s, say 1923 - 24 ish. That blue bead on black chiffon seems to have been very popular at the time.

Hollis
 
Congratulations! You've found a beautiful early '20s dress and it looks to be in very good condition too. The fabric looks like silk georgette. I agree that removing the hip tuck will restore it to it's original structure. The floral design is beautiful.
 
Wow, what a flea-market find! Looks 20s to me, and it should be even more striking when you let out that tucked seaming so it falls properly. It really does look to be in wonderful condition!
 
What I think people forget with the older periods is that a dress in this case could start off been made in 1923 , plucking a date out of the air and be recycled style wise a few time and still be around 7 or more years later, so it can have traces of various style in them , so that brings up the question as to where to you date it from the starting or finishing point! .

Saying that to me that part of the charm of these earlier decades , imagining people looking at it and saying should we shouldn't we cut it here or add something there.

What ever it is I do think it's a good hounest 20's dress you found looks like every one agrees with that.
 
Thank you all so much! And to think that this dress was next to a rusted muffin tin and unused diapers. I'll post pics once the dress is let down. Thanks again!
 
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