woman's & man's

Men's Fashion of the 1920's

For the past few centuries, men had worn some variation on three-piece suits.

• Edwardian upper-class men in particular had been very formal,
• changing clothes several times a day as propriety dictated.
• The war changed attitudes and did much to level the classes, 
• which reflected in fashion.

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• Younger men, made a switch from wearing the clothes of their
• elders, and adopted a look all their own with baggy plus fours -
• wide-legged trousers.Suits were simpler, with just slim unpadded jackets
• over the trousers, and fabrics and colors,were lighter and brighter than -
• anyone had seen in years,reflecting the brightness of the music. 

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Suits were simpler,

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• The 1920's is the decade in which fashion entered the modern era. 
• Men also abandoned highly formal daily attire, 
• even began to wear athletic clothing for the first time. 

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• For the workplace or most daily business, men of all ages wore suits
• However, whereas suits had traditionally been broad-shouldered, 
• they were now cut to give men a more slim, boyish look. 

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•  Suspenders were extremely popular at the time,
• and were often paired with knickers 
• and a white or light-blue dress shirt.  

Bow ties

• tended to be worn more often than they are today,
• and still have the charm that made them so popular in the first place. 

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• You wouldn’t be seen without a hat 
• or without a neatly folded handkerchief in the breast pocket of your jacket.
• wool, tweed and flannel fabrics were popular. 
• The dominant colours were brown, blue, green, beige and tan, 

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• Also, the pocket watch was  popular . 
•  A major innovation was trouser, with creases down the front of the leg.
• Footwear was mainly smart brogues often in two tones 

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• The uncomfortable high detachable "collars were quickly ditched 
• in favour of shirts with attached collars.
• and as the decade progressed they became lower. 
• Cufflinks were favoured over buttoned cuffs and it was fashionable
• to wear ones that were decorative rather than gaudy; gold cufflinks were popular.

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Casual wear

• Was so radically different from previous decades,
• women's clothing changing so boldly,
• it may be something of a surprise to note that men's formal wear
• in the 1920's was much the same as it had always been. 
• Black was the only color to wear in the evening, 

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• and while the frock coat had given way to the tailcoat, 
• For all else that changed then and has continued to change in men's wear, 
• the formal suit remains much the same.

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WOMAN 's fashion

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• often referred to as the "roaring 20's",or the era of the flapper
•  Although the flapper is most closely associated with 1920's 
• fashions, a number of other clothing styles were equally

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•  Like skirt lengths , flashy evening attire, comfortable sportswear, 
• and conservative work suits, and dresses either hung straight or ,
• flared at the hip. But despite the variety,women's 1920s fashions
• all broke free of the physical and social constraintsof the previous-
• century.Clothing also changed with women’s changing roles in -   

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• modern society.
• And with much greater freedom of expression resulted in
• innovative styling. Women also where dressing in the new and colorful fabrics .
• Although society matrons of a certain age continued to wear conservative dresses.
• younger women now made sportswear into the greatest change in post-war fashion. 

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• The tubular dresses of the ’Teens had evolved into a similar 
• silhouette that now sported shorter skirts with pleats, gathers, or 
• slits to allow motion to rule women’s fashion for the first time in history.
• Low-waisted dresses with fullness at the hemline allowedwomen to kick up their heels
• literally in new dances like the Charleston. 

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• dresses were lighter (due to less material and new synthetic fabrics)and brighter 
• and shorter than ever before. Fashion designers played with fabric colors,
• textures and patterns to create totally new styles of dress. with The passing of 
• bustles and corsets gave clothing  designers  joy. 

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• Evening dresses, coats and jackets were often trimmed with fur. 
• Hemlines rose for most of the decade but dropped slightly toward  
• the end. Shoes and stockings assumed a greater prominence  now that
• they were more visible. Silk stockings in all the colors of the rainbow, often with 

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• The straight-line chemise topped by the close-fitting cloche hat became the uniform of the day. 
• Women "bobbed," or cut, their hair short to fit under the popular hats, 
• a radical move in the beginning, but standard by the end of the decade 
• "the bob" was reintroduced by actress Louise Brooks in the late 1920's.

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• Dressmaking and millinery courses in particular were embraced
• by women who wanted the new fashions but couldn't afford retail prices.
• Others were looking to create full or part-time jobs for themselves. Many women turned to fashion
•  as a vocation in order to support their fatherless families or to earn extra income
• to spend on the new luxuries.  

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• Working women also embraced the relatively inexpensive ready-made
• clothes as mass production of contemporary clothing became common. 
• It didn't matter if there wasn't a department store in your town or city 
• where you could shop for clothes or accessories as all the big department 
• stores had mail-order catalogs where you could order clothes for men, women, and children for delivery  

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• by post. This meant country people had easy access to city fashions for the verey first .
• time. With all of America observing women and the fashions they wore,the 
•  'It girl" emerged in the 1920's. To be feted as the "It Girl" truly meant the arrival of  
• a girl who had it all, from beauty and style to knock down glamorous
• presence. Everyone wanted to be the "It Girl!" 

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• Thus, the Roaring Twenties redefined womanhood — a new woman evolved; dd it became more 
• acceptable to smoke and drink in public, closer body contact in dancing
• shorter hair, make-up, different styles of dress,and greater participation in the workforce -

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