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STYLE IN THE 1920S

Alessandra Capobianco Period 6

THE ROARING TWENTIES: A CHANGING TIME


The 1920s was characterized by a great deal of social change. This change can be reflected in the music, the dancing, the lifestyle and the fashion. The Jazz Age, as this post-WWI era came to be called, also brought a feeling of anything goes to Americans. Style, reflected in the clothing of both men and women, became a

symbol of the lifestyle.

WOMENS CLOTHING
Although the flapper is the most recognizable style of the 1920s, many different styles were just as popular. In accordance with womens new changing role of society, fashion

changed as well. Flamboyant evening wear, comfortable sportswear,


tailored suits and dresses that hung straight or flared from a drop waist appeared during this time. The look many women strove to achieve was a that of a boyish figure,

without curves.

MENS CLOTHING
Men gave up the restraints of the previous decade and adopted a more comfortable, gaudier sense o style. The casual, laid back look was not for everyone though, since men continued to wear tailored suits, neck ties, and over coats. Hats also continued to be worn by men of the 1920s.

STYLE AND GATSBY


The style of Jay Gatsby can be seen as elegant summer day wear. Soft colored suits, as well as those of patterns of glen plaid or hound tooth, are just some of the choices that he would wear.

As an aristocrat of new money, he wore the best clothes his money could buy.
He is trying to show off his lavish lifestyle to Daisy. Everything he does, including the way he dresses, is to impress Daisy and win her back. Daisys desire for luxurious things can be seen in her emotional reaction to

Gatsbys shirts when he shows them to her.

STYLE AND DAISY


Her reaction to the assortment of shirts characterizes her not having love for Gatsby, but the love of all his wealth and her materialistic views. Although she is consistently mentioned with the color white to give illusion of purity, the true colors of Daisy are then revealed in the end when she kills Myrtle, then flees, showing how she really is

cold-hearted and lacking feeling.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
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