The Crazy 1920s: Fashion and Jazz. . .
. . . and the Kings and Queens of Broadway!
Everything you ever wanted to know about cool 1920s culture.
The famous icons, the beautiful styles, the flashy gangsters, and glittering Gold Diggers of an amazing era in world history. This lens sheds light on the amazing spirit of the 1920s.
To paraphrase Ezra Pound, the 1920s "made it new!"
From the cars to the clothes, from the music to the attitudes, the 1920s were an exciting time in American history.
The music was new, the clothes were new. Women found freedom in American society like never before.
Anybody could be somebody if they had a dream and the balls to chase it.
Check out this great 1920s Fashion Site.
What's 1920s Culture All About?
Cool Fashion, Colorful Characters, and Great Music
- Louise Brooks: 1920s Celebrity and Renegade
- A few great Louise Brooks Videos
- Vote For Louise Brooks!!!
- Vintage 1920s Fashion
- The Brash Attitude of the 1920s
- The 1920's Jazz Age on Wikipedia
- 1920's Style: Costume Ideas and Cool Photos
- Great Books About 1920s Culture
- Vote For Your Favorite 1920s Celebrity?
- Why is 1920s Fashion So Popular These Days?
- Great 1920s Culture Schwag
- 1920's Culture Feedback
- 1920s Fashion and Music
Louise Brooks: 1920s Celebrity and Renegade
The Beautiful Woman in the Black Helmet
" I like to drink and f*ck"
Louise Brooks ~
1920's Icon
If you ask someone to name one of the first things that come to mind when they think of the 1920s after flappers and gangsters many people think of "that pretty lady with the black "Dutch-Boy haircut".
Louise Brooks was brought up in middle-America, always dreamed of the city. She dispised her mid-western roots.
In her early years she could either be found with her nose in an classic novel, or stringing some boy's affections along.
Louise Brooks became famous for:
1)Being Sexually Promiscuous: one time shacking up for an entire weekend with Charlie Chaplin and another couple in an swanky New York hotel.
2) Being Beautiful and Unique: Her Hairstyle defines the 1920s Bob hair craze.
3) Being True to Her Ideals and Independence: In many ways this attribute cost her career.
A few great Louise Brooks Videos
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Vote For Louise Brooks!!!
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Vintage 1920s Fashion
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The Brash Attitude of the 1920s
The 1920's Jazz Age on Wikipedia
A great overview of the Roaring Twenties
The Jazz Age describes the period from 1918-1930; the years after the end of World War I, continuing through the Roaring Twenties and ending with the rise of the Great Depression. The traditional values of the previous period saw great decline while the American stock market soared. The focus of the elements of the Jazz Age, in some contrast with the Roaring Twenties, in historical and cultural studies, are somewhat different, with a greater emphasis on all Modernism.
The age takes its name from jazz, which saw a tremendous surge in popularity among many segments of society. Among the prominent concerns and trends of the period are the public embrace of technological developments (typically seen as progress) - cars, air travel and the telephone - as well as new modernist trends in social behavior, the arts, and culture. Central developments included Art Deco design and architecture.
1920's Style: Costume Ideas and Cool Photos
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Great Books About 1920s Culture
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The Crash of 1929 (The American Experience)
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'It' Plus Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
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Why is 1920s Fashion So Popular These Days?
Is it the movies, skinny women, lack of imagination?
I love 1920's fashion.I love everything about it. As far as style goes it really was the birth of classic fashions as we know them. I've even built an entire website about the fashions of the 1920s so you know I've spent an extraordinary amount of time thinking about the fashions, thinking about the 20s and what an exciting a time in world history it was.
So to my disbelief about a year after I begin publishing my site all the stars start popping out wearing simple flapper dresses, head-dresses, flapper style jewelry, etc.
Great 1920s Culture Schwag
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What do you think the most iconic thing about the 1920s was?
When you think about the 1920s what comes to mind?
Is it flapper dresses? Coco Chanel? Rum-running gangsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano? The stock market crash maybe.After studying the 1920's as much as I have to build my 1920s website I've been overwhelmed by how much the world changed.
And it wasn't just fashion. . . how people made money, movies, automobiles, the birth of modern advertising, not to mentio Broadway plays, and sexy starlets like Louise Brooks. . . there's so much information to talk about.
So, when you think of the 1920s, what do you think of first? I'd love to know what you're thinking so I could add more content to my website.
Please fill out the form on my 1920s fashion page. Thanks so much in advance.
Jesse
1920s Flapper Fashion
The Birth of Modern Style
If ever there was a monumental shift in fashion it occured during the early 1920s.With the new fashions coming out of House of Chanel and fashion designers like Paul Poiret marked a major shift in the role of fashion in society.
The rise of flapper fashion paralleled closely with the rise of jazz and these new French fashions that were showing up more and more in the department stores and catalogues of rural America.
Coco Chanel almost single-handedly gave rise to the look of the flapper, with her simple dresses, flashy jewelry, and convention be damned attitude.
Flapper fashion was about attitude nearly as much as it was about style. Drinking, making out in the back of automobiles, dancing to all hours of the night, all became popular pastimes for the "It Girls" of the 1920s.
Please check out this cool site about 1920s fashion for more info.
1920s Broadway Shows
New York in the Roaring Twenties
The kings and queens of Broadway are not your typical statues up on high, they are regular folks that made good.
Louise Brooks' famous quote, "I like to drink and fuck", sums up the Roaring lifestyle of Broadway in the 1920s.
Brooks is not alone, Broadway was littered with drinkers and fuckers.
One famous love triangle: The famous architect, Stanford White and Harry Thaw's love affair with Broadway star Evelyn Nesbit, is a prime example of the enigmatic rules of 1920s Broadway.
Jealous, Thaw ended up shooting and killing White at Madison Square Garden during a play over White's relationship with Nesbit.
These types of incidents really opened my eyes to what went on On Broadway in the early years.
Also check out this page on 1920s New York Broadway Shows
1920's Culture Feedback
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1920s Fashion and Music
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