Fashion In The 1920s Research Paper
Women’s Fashion In The 1920s
After the end of World War I, the United States president, Warren G. Harding, claimed that he wanted to return to normalcy and to bring back the peace following the years of war; society did change, but it was no where near what it had been before the war (Marcovitz 14). “The reactionary temper of the 1920s and the repressive movements it spawned arose as reactions to a much-publicized social and intellectual revolution that threatened to rip America from it old moorings” (Tindall 800). During this time, the 18th Amendment was passed in order to maintain society’s previous morals and standards. Many Americans saw the consumption of alcohol as a sin and did not want their society to lose their morals (Marcovitz …show more content…
Fashion designers experimented with colors, patterns, and fabrics for textures. Evening dresses, coats and jackets were often trimmed with fur. Hemlines rose for most of the decade” (Scott). One of the influential designers of the decade was Hattie Carnegie, known for her “personal taste and fashion sense, [which] influenced the styles worn by countless American women” (Shaw). “She sought to “interpret European style for American consumers” and her style was welcomed as it had “a guarantee of sophistication and propriety” (Shaw). Carnegie had “an approach to fashion that emphasized consummate polish in every outfit” (Shaw). Eventually she “made her name synonymous with American high fashion for almost half a century” (Shaw). “The Carnegie customer, whatever her age, seems to have been neither girlish nor matronly, but possessed of a certain decorousness” portraying the turn in attitude as well as fashion (Shaw). As the event of changing style, different fabrics were introduced changing the shape, feel, and mood of …show more content…
Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2008. Print.
Cott, Nancy F. No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. Questia. Web. 1 Apr. 2014. .
Drowne, Kathleen Morgan., and Patrick Huber. The 1920s: American Popular Culture Through
History. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004. Print.
Herald, Jacqueline. Fashions of a Decade the 1920s. N.p.: Infobase, 2007. University of Texas
Libraries. Web. 24 Feb. 2014.
.
Marcovitz, Hal. The Roaring Twenties. San Diego, CA: ReferencePoint, 2013. Print.
Scott, Robert. "1920s Fashions for Women." 1920 's Fashions in Womens Clothing. N.p., 2005.
Web. 24 Feb. 2014. .
Shaw, Madelyn. "Carnegie, Hattie." Contemporary Fashion. Ed. Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf. 2nd ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 2002. 102-104. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 25
Feb. 2014.
Tindall, George Brown., and David E. Shi. America: A Narrative History. New York: W. W.
Norton, 2007. Print.
Wynn, Neil A. From Progressivism to Prosperity: World War I and American Society. New
York: Holmes & Meier, 1986. Questia. Web. 1 Apr. 2014.
After the end of World War I, the United States president, Warren G. Harding, claimed that he wanted to return to normalcy and to bring back the peace following the years of war; society did change, but it was no where near what it had been before the war (Marcovitz 14). “The reactionary temper of the 1920s and the repressive movements it spawned arose as reactions to a much-publicized social and intellectual revolution that threatened to rip America from it old moorings” (Tindall 800). During this time, the 18th Amendment was passed in order to maintain society’s previous morals and standards. Many Americans saw the consumption of alcohol as a sin and did not want their society to lose their morals (Marcovitz …show more content…
Fashion designers experimented with colors, patterns, and fabrics for textures. Evening dresses, coats and jackets were often trimmed with fur. Hemlines rose for most of the decade” (Scott). One of the influential designers of the decade was Hattie Carnegie, known for her “personal taste and fashion sense, [which] influenced the styles worn by countless American women” (Shaw). “She sought to “interpret European style for American consumers” and her style was welcomed as it had “a guarantee of sophistication and propriety” (Shaw). Carnegie had “an approach to fashion that emphasized consummate polish in every outfit” (Shaw). Eventually she “made her name synonymous with American high fashion for almost half a century” (Shaw). “The Carnegie customer, whatever her age, seems to have been neither girlish nor matronly, but possessed of a certain decorousness” portraying the turn in attitude as well as fashion (Shaw). As the event of changing style, different fabrics were introduced changing the shape, feel, and mood of …show more content…
Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2008. Print.
Cott, Nancy F. No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. Questia. Web. 1 Apr. 2014. .
Drowne, Kathleen Morgan., and Patrick Huber. The 1920s: American Popular Culture Through
History. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004. Print.
Herald, Jacqueline. Fashions of a Decade the 1920s. N.p.: Infobase, 2007. University of Texas
Libraries. Web. 24 Feb. 2014.
.
Marcovitz, Hal. The Roaring Twenties. San Diego, CA: ReferencePoint, 2013. Print.
Scott, Robert. "1920s Fashions for Women." 1920 's Fashions in Womens Clothing. N.p., 2005.
Web. 24 Feb. 2014. .
Shaw, Madelyn. "Carnegie, Hattie." Contemporary Fashion. Ed. Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf. 2nd ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 2002. 102-104. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 25
Feb. 2014.
Tindall, George Brown., and David E. Shi. America: A Narrative History. New York: W. W.
Norton, 2007. Print.
Wynn, Neil A. From Progressivism to Prosperity: World War I and American Society. New
York: Holmes & Meier, 1986. Questia. Web. 1 Apr. 2014.