Women's Fashion During The Twenties

The twenties were a time when everyone and everything was changing. The twenties brought many different changes, like changes in fashion, music, laws, literature, technology, and overall lifestyles of people and how they lived. The twenties were also a time when the country was just becoming rich after WW1. With that, the use of cars skyrocketed. Everyone was starting to get a car, whether it was the inexpensive Model T, or a fancy, yellow Rolls Royce. After the eighteenth amendment was introduced to the constitution, there was also prohibition. Prohibition brought many problems, like bootlegging and smuggling. The twenties were also known as the age of consumerism, when people just bought stuff just to buy stuff, even if they didn’t need it. There was a huge change in women’s fashion during the twenties, as a result of women playing a larger role in society, as well as the economical boom after WW1. Although normal, middle aged women still wore long dresses, many young women were starting to drift away from the normal fashion sense by wearing short skirts instead of long dresses. These rebellious people, who were mostly young women, were called flappers. Flappers usually wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, rolled down their stockings, and had powdered knees. Pretty much all of the young women in the …show more content…
This brought about a very consumerism type society. People were buying things just because they could, the fancier the better. An example of this in The Great Gatsby is Tom’s secret apartment where he take Myrtle. Even though he has a huge mansion that has everything in it, he still pays for an apartment and decorates it very fancy. Another example of this is when they decide to leave Tom’s house, when it was very hot toward the end of the book, to go to a hotel suite in the city. They didn’t even do anything, that they couldn’t have done at Tom’s house, at the