1920s Fashion- Men, Women, and Flappers Mens Fashion Men in the
Roaring 20s wore baggy plus-fours and wide legged trousers. A more
relaxed style was born in this era, with inspiration from sports,
including white trousers and v-neck sweaters. Suits consisted of
tight jackets with sloping shoulders. Men of the 20s favored a
slimmer, more boyish look. Womens Fashion After the war, fashion
made an abrupt change from the long, straight skirts of the past,
with hemlines rising to just below the knee. Dresses were lighter
and silk stockings grew popular as more leg became visible. Bob
haircuts gained popularity with thinner eyebrows and simple-
brimmed hats. Flappers The Dictionary of Word Phrases and Origins
says, In America, a flapper has always been a giddy, attractive,
and slightly unconventional young thing and F. Scott Fitzgerald
described the ideal flapper as lovely, expensive, and about
nineteen. They completely changed fashion after the war, wearing
short, loose fitting shift dresses with short, sleek hair. They
smoked cigarettes in long holders and put on makeup in public.
Flappers got their name from the way they danced the Charleston.
The Spirit of 20s Fashion The 1920s embraced youth and joie de
vivre, it was a time that encompassed a more vibrant and lively way
of life with a rebellious spirit. Sources
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Dance The Birth of Performance The Charleston was born. Dance
gained popularity through TV. Tap Dance was performed. Charleston +
Irish Step = Tap People would blacken their faces to imitate the
original African style. Dance was revolutionized. Very interpretive
to music. Jazzy and Ragtime music was used. Performance for
American Irish. Dance was a happy thing with a lot of emotion and
popularity.
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Hairstyles were defined by cultural and social rebellion.
Headpieces were worn as expensive and elaborate accessories. Short
hair was not accepted as the standard for many salons, so women who
wished to get bobs had to go to barbers. 1909- Gordon Selfridge
opened the first cosmetics counter. Mascara was called mascaras
Metal lip-tracers were sold in cosmetic stores. Eyeliner was
inspired to look Egyptian by the discovery of King Tuts Tomb. The
bob was invented by the Dutch movie start Mary Thurman by accident.
7 million people in America had bobs by April of 1924. If you didnt
have a bob, you usually would have a hairdo called the psyche knot
which was a bun in the lower back of your head. Popeyes girlfriend
has this hairdo. Hair Styles, Make-up, Beauty Salons: The First
Fads
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Radio & Radio Shows- 1920s In the 1920s 60% of American
families purchased radios. In 1922 there were 600 radio shows in
the U.S. Crystal radios were the first radios to be manufactured
and used. Crystal radios were easy to make at home. The radio was
used for: music, sporting events, lectures, weather reports,
fictional stories, newscasts, market updates, and political
commentary. KDKA was the first transmitted radio commercial,
broadcasted on November 2 nd, 1920. Families gathered around the
radio for nightly entertainment. Families began to schedule their
days around popular radio shows. There was no government control
over the radio. Shows were frequently interrupted by another
program the chose to transmit over the same frequency. America
depended on the radio for a source of communication. The radio
revolution was called the Golden Age It helped to create a vast new
audience of a magnitude which was never dreamed of This audience,
invisible but attentive, differs not only in size but in kind from
any audience the would has ever known. Owen Young
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Flagpole Sitting Origin Related to an ancient form of
discipline Stylitism. A expression of religion or meditation. St.
Simeon Stylites the Elder of Turkey sat on a pole for 30 years. How
it Started 1924- Alvin shipwreck Kelly, an actor, was dared by a
friend to sit on a flagpole. Kelly set the record for 13 hrs. and
13 min. People continued to attempt to beat this record, sitting on
poles for 12,17 and even 21 days. How it worked There was a pole
with a platform for support. Nourishment was most likely liquids
sent up through buckets and ropes. For bathroom use, a small tube
was attached to a hole in the ground to which they would turn away
from the crowd to use the small tube. Record? The longest record
was held by Bill Penfield, which was 30 days and 20 hrs. he would
have stayed up there longer, but he was brought down by a
thunderstorm. Goldfish Swallowing Origin Started as a way to win a
campaign in college with Lorthrop Withington Jr. This shocked
people, so it was turned into a dare, and a date was set. Students
and reporters gathered for this event. The news of a man swallowing
a live goldfish spread, and it turned into a competition. People
began to see how many fish they could swallow. Joseph Deliberato
held the record of swallowing 89 goldfish. This act was then made
illegal in order to preserve the fish Dance Marathons Originated A
women named Alma Cummings danced for 27 hours straight, thus
beginning the idea of dance marathons Rules Contestants had to
constantly be in motion for 45 minutes of the hour. They were
allowed 15 minutes of rest In this time, contestants would eat,
sleep, massage/stretch, or even read. Record The longest marathon
lasted 2 months The Great Depression Dance marathons provided
contestants with money, this was how they were able to get food as
well as jobs during this rough time. It also allowed them a sense
of release, and to forget the outside world.
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the ku klux klan o originated in 1866 in pulaski, tennessee o
includes three different klans in three different times o was made
up of many former confederate veterans o the first grand wizard or
leader of the kkk was a former confederate general name nathan
bedford forrest o had branches in nearly every southern state by
1870 o had one goal--to appose the reconstruction at the end of the
civil war o used violence as white supremacy intimidation and these
acts included tar-and-feathering, lynching, raping and other
violent acts o rose in the 1920s in a revival against jewish and
catholic immigration o required an initiation to each new member
which included an oath, the approval of the investigating
committee, and a ten point interrogation o included an empire which
included realms, dominions, provinces, and dens, all headed by
different appointed leaders o adopted the masks and robes in order
to hide their identity o night riders sometimes claimed to be the
ghosts of confederate soldiers we believe that the perpetuity of
our nation rests upon the solidarity and purity of our native-born,
white, gentile, protestant men and women. -creed of klanswomen by
equating white anglo-saxon protestantism with true americanism, it
fueled intolerance for blacks, catholics, jews, immigrants, and
those it deemed immoral and lawless. under the guise of patriotism
and christianity, it justified acts of intimidation and vigilante
justice. national humanities center derived from the greek word
kuklos or circle
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Prohibition THE ILLEGALIZATION OF ALCOHOL The 18 th Amendment
to the US Constitution illegalized the consumption and sell of
intoxicating liquors in 1919. Bootlegging, the illegal production
and sale of liquor, increased during Prohibition. Speakeasies,
illegal bars where alcohol could still be purchased, began to pop
up during the Prohibition. Prohibition seemed to be working at the
beginning with declines in arrests for drunkenness and a 30% drop
in overall alcohol consumption. But after the original positive
numbers crime and violence began to increase throughout the US.
Many Women supported Prohibition because they viewed alcohol as
destructive force to the family and marriages. The Anti Saloon
League (1893) supported Prohibition because they viewed saloons as
corrupt and ungodly. Many factory owners approved Prohibition
because they wanted to help prevent accidents caused by drunkenness
as well as increase production from workers that had to work
extended hours in the era of increased industrial production.
Prohibition was originally enforced by the Internal Revenue Service
or IRS but was later handed over to the Justice department. Was the
cause of many gangs gaining influence and wealth such as Al Capone.
Was ended in part because the prospect of legalizing alcohol again
would create more jobs for the US during the Great Depression.
Prohibition was ended when FDR took office and the 21 st Amendment
to the US Constitution was created making Alcohol legal again.
Prohibition lasted from 1919-1933 Thered never been a more
advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13
years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed
down the fifth largest industry in the United Statesalcohol
production and just handed it to the criminals a pretty remarkable
thing to do. -Bill Bryson
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Immigration Act of 1924 The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the
number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a
national origins quota. the Act excluded from entry anyone born in
a geographically defined Asiatic Barred Zone except for Japanese
and Filipinos. Before the 1920s all immigrants were required to
take a literacy test. New immigrants had to pay a higher tax fee.
Congress spent a great deal of time trying to restrict immigrants
from coming to the U.S. Immigration Quotas were used to prevent
high numbers of immigrants to the U.S. President Wilson opposed
Quotas and restrictions such as the Literacy Test For many years,
Immigration Quotas were in high mandate and caused many differing
opinions on immigration to the U.S. Immigration slowly but surely
became easier in the U.S. Quotas were not as strictly enforced.
Many people immigrated to the U.S. looking for work and a chance to
start a new life. "They come here specifically and professedly for
the purpose of colonizing and establishing here permanently the
proud Yamato race." He singled out the Japanese among other races
V.S. McClathy
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Womens Rights The New Woman In 1848 the very first convention
for womens rights was held in New York. The 19 th Amendment to the
Constitution saying that women had the right to vote was ratified
August 18, 1920. In 1921 the first woman was enrolled in North
Carolina State College. Women were not happily greeted at the
college and there were headlines saying Women not wanted here.
People thought women were not equal of men mentally and that if
they were able to vote, it would take them out of their proper
sphere of life. Though many things had changed by 1929, women were
still not treated equal or given equal power or opportunity
politically. In 1923, Nellie Tayole Ross was the first woman to be
elected as a U.S governor. Women in the 1920s were known as New
Women. Many things changed socially for women because of their new
rights. They shortened their dresses, smoked, drank illegal alcohol
and changed what society thought of women. Women were allowed to
compete in the Olympics in 1928 for the first time. In 1923, The
Equal Rights Amendment was introduced that said men and women shall
have equal rights in the U.S. In the 1920s divorce rates doubled
because women would no longer put up with bad husband as they did
before. Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be
womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who
jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses
language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush! Agatha
Christie, Murder on the LinksAgatha Christie, Murder on the
Links
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The Scopes Trial Revolutionalizing American Scientific Beliefs
- In 1925, Tennessee state legislature passed a law prohibiting the
teaching of the evolution theory in public schools -The theory of
evolution, published by Charles Darwin, has always been
controversial. -John Scopes, a teacher in Dayton, TN, decided to
challenge the law and included evolution in his curriculum -He was
arrested, and went to trial in the case of State of Tennessee v.
Scopes in July of 1925 -The trial was basically a conflict between
the Bibles authority and Darwins theory -Scopes was found guilty,
and fined $100 -Scopes case was later appealed to the Supreme
Court, but thrown out because of a technicality -The Tennessee law
prohibiting evolution in school curriculum would last another 42
years -The case publicized scientific evidence for evolution -The
case influenced others to stray from traditional biblical thinking
to find other scientific theories Emilie Ebert 4B 9/29/14 If today
you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it
in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it
in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime
to teach in the church. At the next session you may ban books and
the newspapers. Soon you may try to foist your own religion upon
the minds of men. If you can do one you can do the other. Ignorance
and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Clarence Darrow,
Scopes lead attorney
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JOSEPH FRANK KEATON 1.Born into a vaudeville family 2.Got his
nickname, Buster, from Houdini 3.The Great Stone Face is another
nickname 4.Married and divorced twice then married a girl 23 years
younger than him 5.Served in France during WWI 6.Never completed
school 7.Invented his own gags for films 8.Appeared in many films,
and had a part in creating many of them 9.Designed his own pork pie
hats 10.Died of lung cancer at 80 years old Keatons genius as an
actor to keep a face so nearly deadpan and yet render it, by subtle
inflections, so vividly expressive of inner life Gilberto
Perez