1. the decade was characterized by the rise of radical political movements.
Communism began attracting large numbers of followers
 .Communism began attracting large numbers of followers
 Rise of radical political movements such as communism and fascism, amid the economic and
political turmoil after World War I and after the stock market crash
 Turkish War of Independence
 Polish–Soviet War
 Irish Civil War
 Women's suffrage movement continues to make gains as women obtain full voting rights
 and in the United States in 1920; women begin to enter the workplace in larger numbers.

2. T H E 1 9 2 0 S WA S T H E D E C A D E T H AT S TA R T E D O N JA N UA RY
1, 1920 AND ENDED ON DECEMBER 31, 1929. IT IS
S O M E TI M E S R E F E R R E D TO A S TH E ROA R I N G TW E N TI E S O R
THE JAZZ AGE, WHEN SPEAKING ABOUT THE UNITED
STATES, CANADA OR THE UNITED KINGDOM. IN EUROPE
THE DECADE IS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS THE
"GOLDEN TWENTIES"[1] BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMIC
B O O M F O L L OW I N G W O R L D WA R I .

3. PROHIBITION OF ALCOHOL OCCURS IN THE UNITED
STATES. PROHIBITION IN THE UNITED STATES BEGAN
JA N UA RY 1 6 , 1 9 1 9 , W I T H T H E R AT I F I C AT I O N O F T H E
E I G H T E E N T H A M E N D M E N T T O T H E U. S
C O N S T I T U T I O N, E F F E C T I V E A S O F JA N UA RY 1 7 , 1 9 2 0 , A N D
IT CONTINUED THROUGHOUT THE 1920S.

4. ECONOMICS
Economic boom ended
by "Black Tuesday" (October
29, 1929); the stock market
crashes, leading to the Great
Depression. The market actually
began to drop on Thursday October
24, 1929 and the fall continued until
the huge crash on Tuesday October
29, 1929.

5. •
WORLD LEADERS
Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (Italy)
Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
Vladimir Lenin, 1920
Premier Vladimir Lenin (Russia) later (Soviet Union)
Premier Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)

6. SCIENCE
 Albert Einstein
 Sigmund Freud
 Alexander Fleming

7. ENTERTAINMENT
 Charlie Chaplin

8. .
ARTS
Beginning of the Art Deco movement.
 The Group of Seven (artists).
 The Museum of Modern Art opens in Manhattan, November 7, 1929, nine days after the
Wall Street Crash.
 Pablo Picasso paints Three Musicians in 1921
 Beginning of surrealist movement.

9. Miscellaneous trends
• YOUTH CULTURE OF THE LOST GENERATION;
FLAPPERS, THE CHARLESTON, AND THE BOB CUT HAIRCUT.
• FADS SUCH AS MARATHON DANCING, MAH-JONG,
YAHTZEE, CROSSWORD PUZZLES AND POLE-SITTING ARE
POPULAR.

10. FASHION AND LOOKS

11.  The top fashion trends of the 1920s influenced society in many ways. For
the first time a "look" was available to the masses.
 The Sexual Revolution of the 1920s
 Fashion and beauty are inseparable from sex. Throughout history, how
people dress reflects how they are seen in society.
 The top fashion trends of the Victorian Age dressed women in
bodices, crinolines and corsets. Accentuating a woman's breasts and ass while
crushing the waist within a frame of "masculine" control as Joshua Zietz
writes in Flapper. The corset, he continues, had a political proscriptive function
which determined how they were seen and how they functioned in society.
Obviously a woman could not do much physically while wrapped beneath a
crinoline which lessened their ability to breath and physically crushed their
internal organs
 trends were influenced by the rich, social "elite" who had money to burn

12. Luxury was in season.
As accessories, an animal's tail, head, and often paws were often used as decorative elements on these coats. I remember a coat of my grandmother's that was constructed entirely from the bodies of about 30 minks, heads, tails, paws. . . the works. It was both appalling and intriguing. In the
1920s this look went out of fashion quickly, thankfully.
Short Hemlines
Another calling card of the top fashion styles of the 1920s were the rising hemlines of a woman's dress that progressively got shorter and shorter as the decade went on. Finally reaching just above the knee in 1925 and staying there.
Coco Chanel
It would be hard to talk about the top fashions of the 1920s without mentioning Coco Chanel. As we've covered, she made a name for herself selling clothes for women that blurred the line between the "look" or "style" of man and woman.
The flapper fashions that were heavily influenced by Chanel's early designs set the stage for the entire flapper movement in America and worldwide.
SEXY FLAPPER IN RETRO 1920S FASHION

13. It was a time of conservatism, it was a time of great social change. From the world of fashion to the
world to politics, forces clashed to produce the most explosive decade of the century.
In music, the three sounds were jazz, jazz, and jazz. The Jazz Age came about with artist like Bessie
Smith and Duke Ellington. Youth ruled everything. From the young styles of dress to the latest
celebrities. If it was young, it was the thing.

14. IT WAS THE AGE OF PROHIBITION, IT WAS THE AGE OF
PROSPERITY, AND IT WAS THE AGE OF DOWNFALL. IT WAS THE
AGE OF EVERYTHING, AND YOU'LL FIND [ALMOST] EVERYTHING
HERE.

15. Automobile
It brought America together, and in some ways tore it apart. Since the invention of the autotmobile, every aspect of American life would never be the same.
Radio
In the age without television, radio was the center of entertainment. Look at the little device that provided entertainment to the entire generation
Airplane
Fresh out of World War I, the airplane took the United States by storm.
THE IMPACT OF
TECHNOLOGY ON 1920S
LIFE

16. MEN S FASHION
Suits
While Americans were worshiping youthful sports heroes, the general dress of Americans was becoming more youthful looking. Men were abanding the hefty-looking, broad-shouldered suits for skinnier, unpadded, more boyish looking jackets.
Suit pants also underwent a major change. Creases appeared on the front and the sides while cuffs replaced flat hems. Pants were fastened by buttons or hooks. Belts also started to replace the suspender as the device used to hold up pants.

17. Formal Dress
As with all the female fashion during the 1920s, the evening dress progressed to display more of the body. While the skirts were still
full length, the neckline in the speakeasy and the European nightclub became low-cut. Backless dresses also remained popular
throughout the twenties.
An important part of the evening gown during the twenties was the beading. The long straps of the backless dresses (if not the entire
dress) featured beaded chiffon fabrics.
FORMAL DRESS

18. The cloche hat (deriving its name from the French word for "bell") became a necessity for daytime wear. The small hat fit snuggly
over short hair and almost reached to the eyebrows. It was often decorated with a pin in the front or a ribbon.
The rest the world of accessories seemed like a collage from history. A craze for the styles of the World War I aviators took over the
flapper world as girls donned leather helmets, colored scarfs, goggles, and leather jackets. Shoes and jewlery often reflected a craze of
the court of King Tutankhamen, whose tomb was excavated in 1922. Earings, bracelets, and necklaces often were an example of
the presence of the Art Deco, Cubtist, and African art movements.
ACCESSORIES

19. The young flappers of the twenties felt no need to conform to the rigid models of feminity that their
mothers accepted. During the 1920s, fashion for young women focused less female physical form.
Dresses stopped at the knees, the hiplines were lowered, and there was less emphasis on the breasts.
The look was basically "tubular," going from the shoulders straight down to the hem.
THE TUBE

20. The worship of youth also brought about a following of the fashions worn
of college campuses. For some reason, American men adopted extraordianry
pants from Oxford University. These pants were baggy
THE COLLEGIATE
STYLES

21. While Americans were worshiping youthful sports heroes, the general dress of Americans was becoming more youthful looking. Men
were abanding the hefty-looking, broad-shouldered suits for skinnier, unpadded, more boyish looking jackets.
Suit pants also underwent a major change. Creases appeared on the front and the sides while cuffs replaced flat hems. Pants were
fastened by buttons or hooks. Belts also started to replace the suspender as the device used to hold up pants.
SUITS

22. Fashion fads for men were often based on the heroes of the moment, such as sports figures. Golfers Bobby Jones and Wlater
Hagen, tennis player Bill Tilden, and swimmer Johnny Weissmuller provided youth with clothing styles as well as record-breaking
performances. Football players such as Red Grange and the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame promoted the fashions of coats, such as
the raccoon coat and camel hair polo coat. World famous aviator Charles Lindbergh inspired a craze of leather driving jackets. The
young Prince of Wales, with is easy charm and good taste in suits, also became a symbol of male fashionability.
YOUTH AND HEROES