The Flapper The idea of the fashion in the 1920's causes the brain to think of wild women with their skirts shorter then ever before. This image did not actually appear until 1926. Between the years of 1916 and 1929 hemlines rose steadily. The skirt lengths first began to rise in the late 191...
On New Year's Day, 1920, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison. ... Some of the new fashion and cultural trends of the 1920's were that the younger women shocked the older generation with their new hairstyle a short bob. Also new clothes that they wore often much shorter than had been seen and tended to expose their legs and knees. ... The Jazz age also brought new dances such as The Charleston, One Step and Black Bottom. ...
This was a period of new developments and morals; society tore the old traditions into new ones. ... This line is describing the hairstyle of the time which was kept short and masculine than having long hair past the shoulder. ... This implication is not true however, Gatsby actually has a drugstore in Chicago and New York which is where all his profits come from. ...
