fashion
...s, they're talking about the mid-to-late 1920s,'' explains fashion historian Valerie Steele. This dresses were slim and more or less knee hight. Instead of the dress being tight and would showoff all their curves and bust. These were different form all of the others. There was no physical waistline anymore, it didn't matter , the less of the body shape seen the better it was consedered. ``People were really shocked in the '20s. They really worried about the boy-girl look -- they complained that women weren't women anymore.'' And in addition to all of this flat chesting, boy-girl look came a hairstyle with it. These girls would also have short hair to go along with there outfits. Bobs were the kind of hair cuts they were getting, instead of there long and ladie like hair. This hair do was usually cut up to there ears. And they would wear little hats on top of there head that almost reached the top of their eyebrows. It got so out of hand that husbands and fathers were outraged on how salons would allow them to bob there wives or daughters hair and would sue them. Not only the hair and woredorbe were a problem it was the makeup too. It was a more of a shock to people when they saw flappers wearing makeup. Back in the 1920's the only people who were to wear make were whores and actresses. That was the biggest issue out of that , well maybe beside that fact that they started to put lipstick on in public. When it was done in public it was seemed to be very rude and unlady like. And that was what really got the public mad is when they would "carelessly" but on makeup in front of them. It was a style of the dress, it could move freely like the ladie wearing it. Dance craze called the Charleston. These were girls who were in dresses that were short and had beads on dress from head to toe. Even more beads on the fringe of her dress that made noise as she walked down all shimmered on the dance floor with the sounds of the Jazz Age. It was a response on the culture and climate that made the shimmered an...