Fashion in the 1920s

1. Fashion in the 1920s by: Yee Thao, Bobbie Moua, Randy Xiong, Chai Lee

2. 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)

4. 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.

6. 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.

8. 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.

10. MLA citations • “1920’s Womens Fashion and the changing role of women.” Womens fashion 1920’s. 2005.1920’fashion. 28 Oct 2010. < http://www.1920-30.com/fashion/> • Lad. Kashmira. “1920 ‘s clothing-fashion of 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/ 1920’s/a/flappers.html>