TABLE OF CONTENTS:SummaryBeforeAttitudeDanceHAIR + Make UPDressAfterWorks Cited

“This is the period of short skirts, shirt shrift, short credit and short names.”-Vogue 1924

Flappers

Summary

“In the 1920’s women celebrated the financial and social freedoms they had earned during the war by inventing

a totally new look. Now leading more active lives, women wanted clothing and hairstyles to match.

As the fussiness of prewar years dropped away, women cropped their hair into easy-to-manage, boyish bobs and began to wear shorter, loose-fitting

garments that allowed far greater freedom of movement”

-(20th century Design)

DURING THE WAR: boys and the girls broke out of society's structure; they found it very difficult to return

“They found themselves expected to settle down into

the humdrum routine of American life as if

nothing had happened, to accept the moral dicta of elders who seemed to them still to be

living in a Pollyanna land of rosy ideals which the

war had killed for them.

They couldn't do it, and they very disrespectfully said so.”

ATTITUDEOUT IN

Men Smoking Women Smoking

Dancing During the Day Dancing All Night

Covering Chests Flattening Chests

Secret Sex Lives Active Sex Lives

Curvy-feminine bodies Skinny-boyish bodies

Conformity Rebellion

Female Elegance Girlish Innocence

“Make a home and lead her in”

“Mix a cocktail and take her out”

Shortage Excess

Feminine Androgynous

Classic Jazz

MAKEUP

• RED LIPS• DARK EYES• SHORT HAIR

hairand

Drop the hemlines, loose the corsets. Tape your chest and shorten your sleeves.

MODERN

“To achieve the new slim line – modern, minimal, geometric- the surface of the body was broken up by shapes of contrasting color, dismantled and reassembled rather like a Cubist painting”

“I make fashions women can live in and feel comfortable in.”- Coco Chanel

DRESS

CHANGE: women’s freedom to enjoy themselves alongside men. It became much more common for women to enjoy drinking, dancing and even active sex lives. “Within a couple of decades, the freedom to play would grow into the freedom for women to work alongside men as well.”

1929: The Great Depression ends the extravagance Once roudy Flappers marry and settle by 1930’s.

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(Five Volume Set). Boston: U·x·l / Thomson Gale, 2002. 263-265. Print. • Gaff, Jackie. 20S & 30s: Between the Wars (20th Century Design). Milwaukee: Gareth Stevens

Publishing, 2000. Print. • Herald, Jacqueline. Fashions of a Decade: The 1920s (Fashions of a Decade). New York: Facts

on File, 1991. Print. • Unknown. Flapper1923. N.d. Style High Club, Unknown. Style High Club. Web. 11 Apr. 2010. • Unknown. Great Depression. N.d. Weblogs, Unknown. Weblogs. Web. 12 Apr. 2010. • Unknown. Flappers. N.d. Flappers, Unknown. History 1900s. Web. 9 Apr. 2010. • Unknown. Flapper. N.d. 1920's Photos, Unknown. Flickr. Web. 11 Apr. 2010. • Unknown. Flapper. 1923. Grace Magazine, Unknown. Grace Magazine. Web. 10 Apr. 2010. • Watson, Linda. Twentieth Century Fashion: 100 Years of Style By Decade & Designer Volume

4: Fashion Designers G-m. New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 1999. Print.