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Western fashion in the 1920s underwent a modernization. Women's fashion continued to evolve from the restrictions of gender roles and traditional styles of the Victorian era. [ 1 ] Women wore looser clothing which revealed more of the arms and legs, that had begun at least a decade prior with the rising of hemlines to the ankle and the movement ...
A raccoon coat is a full-length fur coat made of raccoon pelts, which became a fashion fad in the United States during the 1920s. Such coats were particularly popular with male college students in the middle and later years of the decade.
In the United States, speakeasy bars date back to at least the 1880s, but came into prominence in the United States during the Prohibition era (1920–1933, longer in some states). During that time, the sale, manufacture, and transportation ( bootlegging ) of alcoholic beverages was illegal throughout the United States, due to the Eighteenth ...
1920s: Income Gaps. While swanky speakeasies and flapper fashion styles were a part of the so-called Roaring Twenties, they existed in a context of widespread social and economic inequality that's ...
"The 1950s were a golden age of fashion, marked by elegant silhouettes, bold femininity, and meticulous tailoring," says Monica Mahoney, the designer behind the eponymous fashion brand. Among the ...
The post Vintage-obsessed woman lives every day like it’s the 1920s-1950s appeared first on In The Know. Carly Knight spends her days wearing vintage clothes while surrounded by antiques, and ...
Scott DeVeaux argues that a standard history of jazz has emerged such that: "After an obligatory nod to African origins and ragtime antecedents, the music is shown to move through a succession of styles or periods: New Orleans jazz up through the 1920s, swing in the 1930s, bebop in the 1940s, cool jazz and hard bop in the 1950s, free jazz and ...
Gladys Alberta Bentley (August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960) [1] was an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance.. Her career skyrocketed when she appeared at Harry Hansberry's Clam House, [2] a well-known gay speakeasy in New York City in the 1920s, as a black, lesbian, cross-dressing performer.