The 1920s was a time full of life and prosperity due to that fact that the economy expanded, which resulted in an increase of leisure activities and activism. Societal views began to differ from the custom traditional household aspect to a new modern lifestyle. Empowerment during the 1920s played an important factor in the role a woman displayed in their household and workforce. Woman began to feel empowered by each other and began to change the way they displayed themselves in society.
Past Eras have shown the evolution of the attire women have worn and how throughout the century women wore what society depicted was acceptable. During the 1900s-1920s French designers began to change and modernize clothing by creating clothes that …show more content…
A flapper was a young women with bobbed hair who wore short skirts, drank, smoked, spoke inappropriately, and was more sexually free (History.com). The Flapper was the ideal representation of what a woman was allowed to become without being judged by society. After years of constriction woman were finally allowed to choose who they wanted to be and how they would portray themselves. The change from the beginning of the 1900s to the 1920s was a big difference seeing as a woman used to rely on their husband and would find many ideas unladylike due to society making them believe that. Later on from 1900-1919 woman began to question the way society was formed and how they were restricted and confined into believing that their life revolved around fashion. Although, they felt fashion confined them they also believe it would liberate them because the fashion they were give restricted them and the fashion they would soon wear would liberate them and would hold no restrictions. Henceforth, when the 1920s hit many woman stopped caring about what others thought and began to rebel around their husbands and began to please themselves instead of everyone …show more content…
Woman gained many rights during the 1920s one being the right to vote. Women being able to vote was a huge success to them because it showed that they shared equal values as men did (History.com). During this time period it showed the evolving civilization and how men were able to accept the fact many women were tired of being a household object that was there for the average man to display to his friends. Women were now able to affect society the way they chose to and shared their values on how they though their country should be run without anyone glancing at them in a suspicious way that made them feel undermined in any way. The 1920s was a time when women flourished and were showing it off with