What Are The Roles Of Women In The 1920's

Advertising painted the perfect picture album of society in the early nineteen hundreds. Advertisements told a story of what was going on during that particular time period. Women were portrayed as being competent and successful in both the nineteen twenties and fifties. “Evaluation of advertisements from nineteen twenty to nineteen fifty nine encourages that despite the conservative role of women in the twenties, the role of women in the fifties seemed much more feminine.” There were beautiful women depicted in the advertisements so that products could be sold and the companies of the advertisements could make a profit on what they were promoting. Women in the nineteen twenties were represented as being elegant and modern. An example of …show more content…
I noticed that the amount of leg exposed increased throughout the nineteen twenties. The hemlines of the skirts and dresses worn in the early twenties went from above the ankle to below the knee by nineteen twenty nine. The presiding fashion of the twenties was the tomboyish figure of the Flapper, which stressed the lack of curves in the feminine body. The most common outfit worn during the twenties was a suit jacket and skirt with low-heeled Mary Jane pumps. Fake jewelry was also part of the wardrobe to decorate the outfit. Jewelry was worn to show the woman had a sense of style. They seemed to be much more conservative with wardrobe in the twenties than in the fifties. The advertisements that I analyzed of the twenties did not show cleavage. The ‘Why Ordinary Beauty Treatments Fail’ ad showed that there was no cleavage shown and that the woman was truly promoting the beauty of the skin. 5 By the end of the nineteen twenties it seemed like women’s desire for curves had returned. Compared to the women of the twenties in advertising, the women of the fifties looked and dressed much more like a woman. I was