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1920s Fashion Plates of men, women, and children's fashion from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries; Photographs from the 1920s taken by photographer, Henry Walker at the University of Houston Digital Library Archived 2010-06-25 at the Wayback Machine "1920s - 20th Century Fashion Drawing and Illustration". Fashion, Jewellery & Accessories.
The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s. (2004). 329pp. Cowley, Malcolm. Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s. (1934) online 1999 edition Archived May 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine; Crafton, Donald (1997). The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926–1931. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Unconventional young woman, often from a middle-class background, typically in her late teens or early twenties, defied her parents' wishes by embracing a bold, unconventional lifestyle with short bobbed hair, revealing outfits, lipstick, and a free-spirited attitude; Flappers are associated with the Jazz Age of the 1920s [170]
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.
Step into Naughty Pine Brewing Company and you'll be instantly transported into another world where the beers are brewed to perfection and the 1920s speakeasy vibes are in full swing. Naughty Pine...
By 1920, the speakeasy became notorious for its riotous performances of hot jazz music which occasionally degenerated into violence and mayhem. [37] A crime reporter for The Washington Post described The Krazy Kat as "something like a Greenwich Village coffee house ", featuring gaudy pictures painted by futurists and impressionists . [ 2 ]
The 21 Club, often simply 21, was a traditional American cuisine restaurant and former prohibition-era speakeasy, located at 21 West 52nd Street in New York City. [1] Prior to its closure in 2020, the club had been active for 90 years, and it had hosted almost every US president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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.