Disobeying Moral Rules In The 1920's

During the 1920s, there were a mass of things going on at the time. You had the end of WW1 which put the whole nation into a celebration attitude, you had the upbringing of jazz that revolutionized the time and music in the day, and finally you have a revolution by teens that were breaking moral rules leaving the old church based lifes behind. The revolution itself, the immediate results, and the long term results made the revolution one of the biggest events that took place in this period. The revolution itself had teens breaking dress codes and disobeying the everyday moral rules. "the American woman . . . has lifted her skirts far beyond any modest limitation," (Revolution…) The older style of skirts being worn were reaching the ground but in the 1920s the average skirt length was 9 inches. The new style of dancing was denounced in religious journals as "impure, polluting, corrupting, debasing, destroying spirituality, increasing carnality," and the mothers and sisters and church members of the land were called upon to admonish and instruct and raise the spiritual tone of these …show more content…
“Another result of the revolution was that manners became not merely different, but-for a few years-unmannerly” (Revolution 11). The whole code of manners who thrown out the door when short dresses started to become the new thing and the activities that the teenagers did like listen to jazz or break all the fashion norms of the older time. ‘Boys and girls were becoming sophisticated about sex at an earlier age; it was symptomatic that when the authors of Middletown asked 241 boys and 315 girls of high-school age to mark as true or false, according to their opinion, the extreme statement, "Nine out of every ten boys and girls of high-school age have petting parties” (Revolution 9). Since the teenagers were becoming more rebellious by the fashion they wore they also started becoming rebellious to the activities they