Fashion+(Adaria+&+Brooke)

During the 1920's, fashion was becoming a major part in the lives of Americans. The "boom" to fashion began with The Miss America pageant in 1921 at Atlantic City. The winner of this event was Margaret Gorman. The pageant caused fashion to become more and more popular. Women were beginning to dress to portray who they were in the world, or who they were trying to become. Prime examples of these types of women were flappers. Flappers were young women who dressed and expressed themselves in their own ways. Their image included extreme changes from the contemporary styles most women wore. Clothing was often made shorter and had less fabric to ensure easier movement while dancing. Another fashion that was odd during the time period included dressing more masculine, to look like a boy. Flappers included, wore fabric over their chests in order to attain a more slender, younger look. Along with covered their busts, women hid their curves as well. Before the 1920's, woman also hid their arms and legs; but now skin was being shown more often and openly at all hours of the day. Stores were beginning to sell clothes of all styles to the public, therefore everyone could buy them. Earlier, you needed a tailor to customize your clothing. This way of shopping quickly became popular. During this time period, credit was also created. The idea of going into a store and "buying" as many clothes as you wanted, made you seem rich because you could just "charge it'. The downfall began when people were no longer able to pay off their credit. Ultimately, the fashion that instituted during the 1920's greatly impacted the fashion world today. Without these daring ladies, we very well may still be covered head to toe in stockings, long dresses, and covering shirts. Adaria Doherty

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The 1920’s was filled with prosperity and change; women given the right to vote and work, which created an open space to express onselve through fashion. During this time period, the lifestyle became more active and the fashion began to branch out into many different styles. For example, because of the active lifestyle more women began to play sports, which the design of sportswear was inspired by and had many other pros about it. Shorter skirts with pleats, gathers, or slits allowed motion (activeness) play a large role in women’s fashion for the first time. Along with sportswear many other different kind of fashion “fad’s” were introduced, such as: flapper dresses and dropped waist dresses. Assembly of the flapper dress was pretty simple and was also referred to as the “one-hour dress” because it could be made in such a short period of time. The idea of this dress was to create a plain but lavish dress style. A dropped waist dress was like the flapper dress because it had a similar look to it. From the shoulder to about three/four inches above the waist was the top part and the bottom consisted of a mid-calf skirt attached with sewn in belts dividing the two pieces. As women were able to “show” themselves more and more, the fashion only began to become more comfortable, tight fitting and shorter. Brooke Zailo





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