Themes in American History

The 1920s is the decade that fashion entered the modern era. It was the decade in which women first liberated themselves from constricting fashions and began to wear more comfortable clothes, such as short skirts or trousers. Men started abandoning overly formal clothes and began to wear sport clothes for the first time. Of cause, there are reasons for those changes. First of all, after World War I, America entered a prosperous era. Social customs and morals were relaxed in the optimism brought on by the end of the war and the booming of the stock market. Women were entering the workforce in record numbers. Thus, Clothing changed with women’s changing roles in modern society, particularly with the idea of freedom for women. Younger women now made sportswear into the greatest change in post-war fashion. The tubular dresses of the ’Teens had evolved into a similar silhouette that now sported shorter skirts with pleats, gathers, or slits to allow motion to rule women’s fashion for the first time in history.

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