Style in the 1920s reflected drastic changes in the perception of what was "proper." In the previous Victorian era, the style for women resembled that of an hourglass. Twenty-five pound restricting corsets were used to create this shape. The 1920s shape was strikingly different, defined by straight lines and flat chests. The …show more content…
They wanted to be out in the world with them rather than confined to the home. They wanted freedom from past restrictions. It was in the 1920s that it became fashionable for women to frequent the nightclubs, drink at speakeasies, shimmy to the jazz music, and smoke cigarettes in public. Zelda Fitzgerald described it perfectly, "I think a woman gets more happiness out of being gay, light hearted, unconventional, mistress of her own fate than out of a career that calls for hard work, intellectual pessimism and loneliness" (Collins 329). Not only did women want the right to vote like their men, they wanted to participate in the leisure of the times with