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How Fashion andEntertainmen t trendsreflected the changes insociety after WWI

TheRoaring1920s

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Art Transformed into FashionFashion in the 1920sdirectly showed how women in

this time period wanted themselves to be viewed byothers.

Kathleen McDermott from the Massachusetts College of

Art perceives women in the 1920s as relating theirstyles to types of art when she states in an article:Unlike the Impressionist artists, for example, whoportrayed relaxed yet stylish women at home andoutdoors, fashion plates depicted stiff and staticwomen garbed in tight gowns trimmed withfantastical tucks, ruffles, bows, swags, and ribbons.

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The Beginning of Boyish Trends

You dont know who we are, said one of the girls inyellow, but we met you here about a month ago.Youve dyed your hair since then, remarked

Jordan (Fitzgerald 43).

Fashion in this time period not only included thewardrobe aspect of it but women changed their aswell. This was a big part of the changing women inthe U.S. Most young females cut their hair into short,boy-like styles and sometimes dyed it jet black; asmost did in order to keep up with the new trends.

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Dance the Night Away

After WWI, entertainment became a fundamental part of peoples lives. Individuals wanted to live their lives tothe fullest after being in such a devastating war time.

There were numerous ways to entertain oneself in the1920s. Mark H. Fuller from Temple University gave afew examples in a section from a piece called the

Journal of Social History in which he wrote: By the

1920s, the nightclubs, dance halls, and theaters of Chicagos South Side ghetto were the major center fordevelopment of jazz and other forms of blackentertainment in the United States.

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A little Tipsy There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden By

midnight the hilarity had increasedbetween thenumbers, people were doing stunts all over the garden,while happy vacuous bursts of laughter rose toward thesummer sky. A pair of stage twins, who turned out to be

the girls in yellow, did a baby act in costume andchampagne was served in glasses bigger than fingerbowls (Fitzgerald 46).

This quote clearly shows that a big part of entertainment

back then was privilege of drinking. People saw it as achance to lighten up and have even more fun. Althoughmost people got carried away.

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High

RanksIn the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up and

stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long

forgotten that most of his female guests were too youngto know one from the other (Fitzgerald 40).

Parties were always a place for people to enjoythemselves; however it was also a chance for the hosts

throwing the party to show off their property, homes,and generally, their social status.

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Variables of

SocietyOccupational roles; the amount of influence (authority or

power); the amount of source of income and the

amount of source of property; membership in an ethnicor racial group or category; the differentialparticipation in some local community within the largersociety.

Bernard Barber of Barnard College, quoted above, feelsthat these affiliations are variables of social ranking andstatus in the 1920s.

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Chelsi. "1920"s Entertainment vs. Todays Entertainment." Associated Content: News . AC, 20 July 2007. Web. 11 Dec. 2009.

McDermott, Kathleen. "Introduction." Bpl.org . Massachusetts College of Art, 1998. Web. 17 Dec. 2009.

Thomas, Pauline W. "1914-1918 Changes for Women." FashionEra.com .Web. 11 Dec. 2009.

Vanek, J. "Work, leisure, and family roles: farm households in the UnitedStates." Cab Abstracts PLus. Journal of Family History, Apr. 2006. Web.17 Dec. 2009.

Haller, Mark H. "Policy Gambling, Entertainment, and the Emergence of Black Politics: Chicago from 1900 to 1940." Jstor.org. Journal of SocialHistory. Web. 18 Dec. 2009.

Barber, Bernard. "Family Status, Local-Community Status, and SocialStratification: Three Types of Social Ranking." Jstor.org. The PacificSociological Review. Web. 20 Dec. 2009.