History Project USA in the 1920s

HISTORY PROJECT USA IN THE 1920S

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Men’s Fashion

Men loosened the constraints of previous decades and began to acquire a more relaxed, flashier wardrobe. Colorful suits and patterned socks accented the wardrobe of the casually dressed. However, the casual look was not for everyone, and many men still donned more conservative attire for the office. At the end of the 1920s, the leather jacket and cap was a popular style.

MEN’S FASHION

Women before the flappers• Used to wear more conservative clothes.• They had to behave politely.• Their relationship with men was controlled.• Could not smoke in public.• They could not vote.

The flappers

• They were young girls .• The flapper stereotype is one of short bobbed

hair, straight knee-length dresses, silk stockings, heavy make-up, and necklaces.

• The flappers are also associated with Jazz and the 1920s dances like Charleston.

• Fitzgerald and john held junior, reflected and created and image of the flappers in the Usa as an example of women. They are considered of drastic changes in women’s clothing and hair..

• Flappers attitude was characterized by stark truthfulness, fast living, and sexual behavior.

Change in the role of women

• During the first world war, these women, mostly in towns, started to work because men had gone to war, so these jobs was the cause of this new position.

Flappers attitude

Wore more daring clothes.Smoke in public and drunk with menThe had a jobThey were exposed in films, as its main topic

was Sex.They could vote, but not participate in politics.They were still paid less than men.

Rural usa• Women that enjoyed this privileges

lived in towns. Rural women were still conservative, and saw flappers as a very bad example. These urban women worked , even double , but they remained with their culture and traditions. These women could not enjoy the boom at all.

Women’s Fashion

Their changes • Women changed their long dull color

dresses to more colorful and more daring dresses.

• Teens started using short skirts• Women changed their underwear

clothes and they started using flexible corsets and smaller corsets

Hairstyle

• Women in the 1920´s copied their hair from famous Hollywood stars.

• women's magazines carried articles on how to achieve the current look.

This imagen presents a very known hairstyle from the women in the 1920’s

Women

This image represents women in the 1920’s before their changes

This image shows women changes during

the 1920’s

Early 1920s

Cars• Helped the cities to grow.• Helped in the growth of entertainment.

Car production was revolutionized by Henry Ford. In 1913 he set up the first moving production line in the world.

• More than 15 million were produced between 1908 and 1925. in 1929, 4.8 million cars were made. 

MARIA PAULA TEARVIOLETA BALBIANISOFIA HONENSPILAR OLAIZOLALUISA FLORES PIRAN