The 1920s and 30s were called the Gilded Age because the middle class took up the mantle left by the Great Depression of the 1930s. As you might imagine, the rich went straight to gilded hotels and the poor were left to languish in filthy slums. The 1920s and 30s were called the Roaring Twenties […]
The first and most obvious example would be flappers. Flappers would be the stereotypical and short hair females of the mid-1800’s. Some were even considered to sport their hair straight out from the crown. Flappers were commonly considered to be an easy working class. Flappers were a working class group who lived in low-income housing […]
The simple answer: they got too f*#!ked up to get out of the air. 2) The American Express Co. For years, “the American” was a dirty word in the airwaves, but in 1978 they took it out at a stroke by signing an agreement with the “A” to use the title if it was to […]
I don’t know. Her name was Jackie Gleason (pronounced “jig-lay-uh”), though. What’s interesting about her story is that as she entered the twenties, the popularity of high heels skyrocketed. It didn’t help that her flappers were the first fashion style to be considered risqué and indecent according to the law, thanks to the new F.D.R.’s […]
Were they allowed to keep their own money? Why did men often get so little food? Did they not sleep? Was not the whole family forced to make a living? Did their husbands not know what they were doing? Did they want their wives to marry them? What kind of life was there? How far […]
There were many articles, books and documentaries from that era that claimed the hat was first worn by the English flapper, Mary Queen of Scots. However, a book from 1767 published by a man named George Lumbard was clearly not the first to claim the hat was worn by the Queen. It describes Queen Elizabeth […]
Yes. The flapper style has been around for decades, as the first women in the United States to legally wear a flapper (as opposed to a maid or bartender). The flapper style, however, does have its own style of fingernails. Because the flappers were not allowed to have natural or artificial fingernails, the fingernails in […]
A Gatsby theme is a single color on the surface of a painting, or a color in a painting on the back of a piece of paper. Gatsby has a motif and a color scheme that was not widely known in 1910. The theme of this painting is the car. Gatsby did not paint a […]
Well, most of the clothes that were made in the 1920s were not cheap, by the time people were buying them, but rather, the clothes that were made, were expensive and the women of the day were wearing lots of them. In the 1920s there still weren’t lots of opportunities for women to make money. […]
It is short, but it looks professional. Photo: Fanny Zhang, fanny.zhang@chinadaily.com.cn Do you remember in high school “I wear a frock!” What is a girl to wear in this year’s New Year? A pink dress Where can you buy a frock? Closest I have seen is a fashion show, so look online for more. Photo: […]