YOUTH SETS THE SCENE FOR

THE 1920’SBy Conshea Brown and Jessica

Thomas

IDOLIZING THE YOUNG Why did America idolize the young?

1. Because of the nation’s growing fascination with youth, businesses decided to sell products that promised youth vitality

GIBSON GIRL Gibson Girl1. long flowing hair2. Covered legs3. Emphasized womanly figure4. Early 1900’s

FLAPPER Flapper 1. Bobbed hair2. Showed legs

FASHIONS FOR MEN AND WOMEN

Men Ties Driving gloves Oxford bags Raccoon coat Hair was gelled back

Women Bobbed hair Missing corset Peekaboo hats Short dresses

FADS & FASHIONS Dancing such as the

foxtrot, shimmy, Charleston

Bobbed hair Silent films Automobiles Disney Gangsters

New York starts to become known as the “fashion capital”

Jazz music Started these things

to get a change from the war

Vogue

FADS AND FASHIONS CONT.

WOMEN REBEL In the 1920’s women started to rebel

against society to gain intellectual independence

Trying to transition from old domestic ways of women

Some ways they rebelled were using profanity in public and smoking

SCHOOLS Americans kept children in schools

because they didn’t depend on their wages like before

College numbers increased New schools were built with huge gyms

and laboratories

IMPACT OF FADS Changed society forever Women and men were viewed

differently than before Women redefined their gender role. Speakeasies started coming around Jazz started booming Nightclubs Prohibition

NEW YOUTH CULTURE New youth culture was a social change

in America because it shows how people changed in society during the 1920’s

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