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The 1960s brought us The Beatles, Bob Dylan, beehive hairstyles, the civil rights movement, ATMs, audio cassettes, the Flintstones, and some of the most iconic fashion ever. It was a time of ...
"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
Fashion photography in the 1960s represented a new feminine ideal for women and young girls: the Single Girl. 1960s photography was in sharp contrast to the models of the 1920s, who were carefully posed for the camera and portrayed as immobile. The Single Girl represented 'movement'. She was young, single, active, and economically self-sufficient.
A drawing by David Ring illustrating a shift dress for the Europeana Fashion project. [1] A shift dress typically falls from the shoulders, and features darts around the bust. [2] A shift dress is a dress in which the cloth falls straight from the shoulders and has darts around the bust. It frequently features a high scoop or boat neck. [3]
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 ...
Speakeasy bars in the United States 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 ...
Cosmetics, which until the 1920s were not typically accepted in American society because of their association with prostitution, became extremely popular. [73] In the 1920s, new magazines appealed to young German women with a sensuous image and advertisements for the appropriate clothes and accessories they would want to purchase.
Before the 1940s, young boys and girls alike wore short dresses. [6] In the US, during the 1940s and 1950s, boys were dressed like their fathers, which meant shirts and trousers and the same colors that their fathers wore. [6] From the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s, the fashion for American girls was unisex clothing, such as jeans and T ...