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Congress Ratifies 18th Amendment
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Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel shaped 1920's women's fashion. Chanel's "Garconne Look" was quickly adopted in Britain and the U.S. and has broadly been called the "flapper look". The Flapper look was defined by it's "masculine" influence.
Chanel used male motifs like sailors outfits and mechanic's dungarees as inspirations for her fashions. -
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The Roaring 20s
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Jazz
Jazz was the major music trend of the 1920s with popular dances including the charleston. These lively dances and music go hand-in-hand with the flapper style. -
Women granted right to vote in the US
This inspired rejection of the typical Victorian look and embracement of youth and vice. -
Rudolph Valentino
Film actor that inspired men's fashion -
Flapper Style Popularized
The flapper style originates from Europe. This style focuses on shorter hemlines, a dropped waistline, and a shorter hairstyle. Women strived to get a more boyish, athetic look. Cloche hats, turban hats, longs strands of jewelry, wraps, and jeweled headbands were all popular accesories of the 20s. -
Women's Hair
Bobbed hair was the trend of the 1920s and came in a variety of styles as well as with bangs or without. In the late twenties Marcel waves (also known as finger waves) became popular. -
Work Clothes
Work clothes for men were usuallly suits depending on their profession. Since women were being more excepted into the workforce they wore around what men did (besides suits) -
Children's Fashion
One other change that was significant of the 1920s is the fact that baby clothing were designed to be more practical. More comfortable outfits such as rompers and short dresses replaced the frilly laced dresses and other formal baby attire. For older girls, dress was different as well. They usually were seen wearing items such as cotton frocks, cardigan sweaters, and canvas shoes or sandals. -
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is Published
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Men's Hair
In the 1920's it was very common for men to wear hats. Hairstyles were usually slicked back with an oil-based product called Brillantine and then usually parted in 3 popular ways center, side, or wide part.
Facial Hair
The new safety razor by Gillette caused men were enjoying shaving again. Except for the ultra thin mustache men were not wearing any facial hair in the 1920s. To wear facial hair was a sign that you were hiding things like old scars from a small pox outbreak. -
Clara Bow
Actress who popularized the flapper -
Men's Fashion
The most essential part of men's fashion in the 20s is the suit. Suit pants always matched the suit jacket. Lots of colors in dress shirts and bow ties. Hats were made of felt or straw depending on the season and were in the styles tall crown, center dent, fedora, a bowler or derby and homburg with rolled brim. -
Colleen Moore
Colleen Moore was a silent film actress and was one of the many famous women who first popularized the bob hairstyle. -
Start of the Great Depression in the US
