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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.
After the First World War (1914–18) hair styles changed: the wartime trenches were infested with lice and fleas, so soldiers were forced to shave their heads. . Consequently, men with short hair appeared to have been at the front in the war, while men with longer hair might be thought of as pacifists and cowards, even suspected
During the jazz age of the 1920s and 1930s, hairstyles of this type were considered mainstream fashion. [4] Military barbers of the World War I era gave short back and sides haircuts as fast as possible because of the numbers, under orders to facilitate personal hygiene in trench warfare, and as nearly uniform as possible, with an eye to ...
Conk hairstyle. The conk was a hairstyle popular among African-American men from the 1920s up to the early-to-mid 1960s. [1] This hairstyle called for a man with naturally "kinky" hair to have it chemically straightened using a relaxer called congolene, an initially homemade hair straightener gel made from the extremely corrosive chemical lye which was often mixed with eggs and potatoes.
"1920s fashion & music". 1920s Flapper: Young Women in a Modern World.. "Slang of the 1920s". AACA. Archived from the original on June 18, 2010.. "Flappers and fashion". Rambova. Archived from the original on August 21, 2010 "Thousands of photos of flappers can be viewed at Louise Brooks Fan Club on Facebook". Facebook
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 ...
After existing for over half-a-decade and surviving a number of police raids, [12] the speakeasy presumably closed by 1926 when Cleon Throckmorton and his first wife Kathryn "Kat" Mullin relocated to Greenwich Village in New York City. [13] Today, the speakeasy's neighborhood is the site of The Green Lantern, a D.C. gay bar. [14]
They wanted to give that true authentic feel of what it would look like walking into a New York speakeasy in the 1920s during the Industrial Revolution like the Cotton Club and Stork Club.