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2. 1920s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   1920s in Western fashion. Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford on board the SS Lapland on their honeymoon, 1920. A drawing picturing French women's fashion, c.1921. Typical fashion in California, 1925. Tennis player, Australia, 1924. Western fashion in the 1920s underwent a modernization. Women's fashion continued to evolve from the ...

3. Flapper - Wikipedia

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   Flapper. Flappers were a subculture of young Western women prominent after the First World War and through the 1920s who wore short skirts (knee height was considered short during that period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for prevailing codes of decent behavior.

4. Women's suffrage and Western women's fashion through the ...

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   The popularisation of the flapper style was due to film, radio and the media. Adrian was a popular designer for Metro-Goldyn-Mayer during the 1920s-1930s, dressing silent film actresses including Clara Bow, Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford: which influenced American women's fashion. [11]

5. Mary Jane (shoe) - Wikipedia

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   Mary Jane (also known as bar shoes, strap shoes or doll shoes) is an American term (formerly a registered trademark) for a closed, low-cut shoe with one or more straps across the instep. [ 1 ] Classic Mary Janes for children are typically made of black leather or patent leather and have one thin strap fastened with a buckle or button, a broad ...

6. Louise Brooks - Wikipedia

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   Louise Brooks. Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985) was an American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during the prime of her career. [1][2][3] At the age of 15, Brooks began her career as a dancer and ...

7. Joan Crawford - Wikipedia

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   The role established her as a symbol of modern 1920s-style femininity who rivaled Clara Bow, the original It girl, and Hollywood's foremost flapper. A stream of hits followed Our Dancing Daughters , including two more flapper-themed movies, in which Crawford embodied for her legion of fans (many of whom were women) an idealized vision of the ...