Nostalgic retreat: 100 years on, a 1920s festival feels eerily prescient

The Blue Mountains’ annual Roaring 20s celebration is usually all champagne and swinging limbs, but this year there’s a different mood

The comparisons are unavoidable. At this weekend’s Roaring 20s festival in the Blue Mountains, while surrounded by women in beaded dresses with Louise Brooks bobs and dapper men in tweed suits and fedoras, I can’t help but think about the similarities between 1920 and 2020. And, without being too facile, these two eras seem uncomfortably close.

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