Title:
Flapper era was bright spot between World War I and Great Depression
Author:
Carol W. Kimball
Subjects:
Flapper era, 1920's
fashion and cosmetics
World War I and the Great Depression
fashion and cosmetics
World War I and the Great Depression
Object ID:
Kim09-065
Object Name:
Scrapbook
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
Publisher:
The Day
Publication Place:
New London, CT
Pubication Date:
01/05/2004
Collection:
Carol W. Kimball
Summary:
Before the 1920's well-corseted women ladies wore voluminous skirts a bare nine inches off the floor and may have dabbed shiny noses with powder. By 1929 most women freely used cosmetics of all sorts, cut their hair short, wore skirts up to the knee and got rid of constricting under-garmets. Clara Bow lips, the it girl, flapper dresses, galoshes and Rudolph Valentino looks became the fashion. After the horrors of Worldl War I everyone wanted something new. Alcohol, cigarettes, and the Charleston and Black Bottom dances made parties wild ones. All this excess ended with the stock market collapse in 1929.
People:
Valentino, Rudolph
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Held, John (Jr.)
Krajewski, Nellie
Phillips, Viola
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Held, John (Jr.)
Krajewski, Nellie
Phillips, Viola
Search Terms:
Flappers
1920's
fashion and cosmetics
World War I
Great Depression
dances
1920's
fashion and cosmetics
World War I
Great Depression
dances