Apr 14 to Tags KSUM exhibition. College of the Arts. Street Address. Contact Us. Facebook Facebook. Even French designers like Coco Chanel, all reached for the scissors. Young women were more inclined to cut their hair short. Adopting the boyish bob , the shingle or even the drastic Eton Crop which cut hair right back behind the ears.
The Dutch boy haircut being the most popular, if you had the right face. But by , women of all ages wore a bob of some kind. Marcel waves were a popular choice for a bobbed hairstyle among white women. Black women on the other hand went to great lengths to iron their hair as straight as possible. The enduring image of the flapper, almost a century ago, still resonates.
It wears out shoes! The typical flapper dress of The front page of the Arizona Weekly Journal on August 2nd, pretty much proves that the fringe flapper dress was for real. Share Pin Tweet. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Close Privacy Overview This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website.
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Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald rose to prominence as a chronicler of the jazz age. Born in St. Paul, Minn. The success of his first novel, This Side of Paradise , made him an instant The Roaring Twenties was a period in history of dramatic social and political change. For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms. As the show-business capital of the world, Hollywood is home to many famous television and movie studios and record companies.
The Harlem Renaissance was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a Black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted.
Lasting roughly from the s through the mids, the period is During the Tulsa Race Massacre, which occurred over 18 hours from May 31 to June 1, , a white mob attacked residents, homes and businesses in the predominantly Black Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The event remains one of the worst incidents of racial violence in The 18th Amendment to the U. Constitution—which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors—ushered in a period in American history known as Prohibition.
Prohibition was ratified by the states on January 16, and officially went into effect on The Scopes Trial, also known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was the prosecution of science teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school, which a recent bill had made illegal.
The trial featured two of the best-known orators of the era, William The Teapot Dome Scandal of the s shocked Americans by revealing an unprecedented level of greed and corruption within the federal government. The scandal involved ornery oil tycoons, poker-playing politicians, illegal liquor sales, a murder-suicide, a womanizing president When Susan B. Live TV. They drank heavily in defiance of Prohibition, smoked, embraced new shocking dances like the Charleston, the Shimmy, and the Black Bottom, used slang, drove fast, and freely took lovers and jobs.
Posture and motion were important elements of the flapper persona. The fast, jerky motions characterized by these popular dances emphasized bare arms, backs, and legs. The posture of the flapper was an affected "debutante slouch," often with hand on hip. This limp, listless pose was not possible on a traditionally corseted body and was meant to imply the aftereffects of the previous night's debauchery. Accordingly, flapper styles blatantly disregarded established fashions in exchange for the new and daring.
Popular styles of the s focused on the display of the slim, youthful body through the use of short skirts and dropped waists. Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel and Jean Patou were particularly known for this youthful, sporty style. The flapper took this fashionable ideal to the extreme and wore the shortest skirts possible, low cloches, and negligible underwear.
Evening dresses were sleeveless, flashy, and frequently featured slit skirts meant to enable active dancing. She bobbed her hair, wore obvious makeup, and sunbathed in skimpy, one-piece bathing suits. A common element of the flapper style was the tendency to misuse clothing and accessories-a way of thumbing noses at high fashion and polite society.
Examples of this phenomenon were the rolling of stockings below the knees, the wearing of unhooked rubber galoshes that "flapped" when walking, evening shoes worn with daywear, and occasionally even the natural waist worn in defiance of the dictates of high fashion. Flappers were also rumored to rouge their knees, and this is a part of the greater emphasis on legs crucial to the flapper persona. Besides the previously mentioned galoshes and rolled stockings, flappers were associated with elaborate garters and anklets.
A daring minority rejected stockings altogether when the weather was warm, but many opted for stockings in fashionable "suntan" shades. Accessories that flaunted outrageous behavior, like the jeweled cigarette holder and ornate compact, were also popular. The creation of the flapper image is largely credited to the writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the drawings of John Held Jr. Fitzgerald's writings focused on the fast pace of modern life, but when he was given the credit for popularizing the movement, he responded, "I was the spark that lit up Flaming Youth and Colleen Moore was the torch.
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