Jazz Age fashion plate: a woman in a jewelled headdress and striped evening wrap on blue steps, a man in tails behind her under paper lanterns

Rare Smiles

Pictures by George BarbierWords by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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A George Barbier fashion plate of an evening party under paper lanterns, paired with F. Scott Fitzgerald's line from The Great Gatsby about a rare smile of eternal reassurance, the kind you meet four or five times in life. Gatsby was Fitzgerald's portrait of the Jazz Age, its glittering parties and its longing, and the art comes from fashion plates of the same years. For someone whose smile has stayed with you.

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Inside, it says

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. F. Scott Fitzgerald · The Great Gatsby · 1925

On the back

Plate: George Barbier · Gazette du Bon Ton, 1921 / Words: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925 / The Great Gatsby (1925) is F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrait of the Jazz Age: glittering parties, longing and the American dream. It entered the US public domain in 2021. The art: fashion plates from the same years.

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