Fashion in the 1920s

Fashion in the 1920s

by: Yee Thao, Bobbie Moua, Randy Xiong, Chai Lee

Women’s fashion

• Women's fashion dramatically changed in the early 1920’s

• Art was a great influence on the change of women's fashion.

• Women’s clothing became more comfortable .

• They began to wear shorter skirts. (knee length)

• Bustles and corsets were forgotten

• Women began to wear loose dresses that had straight silhouettes.

• Women cut their hair short to fit under popular hats called cloche hats.

Men's Fashion

• Men's fashion also changed. They began to wear extremely high-waisted jackets, mostly worn with belts.

• Lapels on suit jackets were not as wide as they used to be, because men tended to button them up high.

• Trousers were narrow and straight, and they were often somewhat short, so a man’s socks would show.

• Men’s would wear hats base on their class. Upper-class men usually wore top hats, middle class would wear trilby hats, lowers class would wear flat cap sor none at all.

MLA citations

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the1920’s”2009.buzzle.com. Oct 28, 2010.<http://www.buzzle.com/articles/1920’s -clothing-fashion-of-the-twenties.html

• Poscoe, Christina. Christy’s fashion page. 2008<http://www.rambova.com/fashion/fash4.html>

• Rosenberg, Jenifer. “flappers in the roaring twenties.” about. Oct 28 2010.<http://history1900’s.about.com/od/

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