Class reviewed the Finn article "The Woman Revolutionary".
Then the class read two documents one by a man "about" flappers and one by a woman who identified as a flapper in the 1920s. The class compared these points of view. The following images were used to set a stage of fashion and design in the 1920s:
Preceeding the period of the flapper and the period referred to as Art Deco was the period called Art Nouveau
According to Wikipedia, Flappers: Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms.[1] Flappers had their origins in the liberal period of the Roaring Twenties, the social, political turbulence and increased transatlantic cultural exchange that followed the end of World War I, as well as the export of American jazz culture to Europe.
Flapper Fashion:
Then the class read two documents one by a man "about" flappers and one by a woman who identified as a flapper in the 1920s. The class compared these points of view. The following images were used to set a stage of fashion and design in the 1920s:
Preceeding the period of the flapper and the period referred to as Art Deco was the period called Art Nouveau
According to Wikipedia, Flappers: Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms.[1] Flappers had their origins in the liberal period of the Roaring Twenties, the social, political turbulence and increased transatlantic cultural exchange that followed the end of World War I, as well as the export of American jazz culture to Europe.
Flapper Fashion:
What it Costs to be a Well Dressed Flapper. $150 coat, $25 blouse, $30 skirt, $20 handbag, $4.50 stockings, $5 flower clip, $10 pearl necklace, $8.50 gloves, $18.50 shoes for a total of $356.50 or about $3,500 in today’s money.
Mens and Boys Fashion (more mainstream)
A more "stylish" look
Art Deco: Merchandise Mart; Chicago; Chrysler Building NYC
"High End" Art Deco Interiors
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