Louise Brooks

Among the many influential figures of the 1920s, Louise Brooks became an icon of the decade. Brooks developed her fame as soon as she began her career, and her personality stood out among other women, and

Louise Brooks Louise Brooks started her career as a dancer, but soon had a change of occupation. Her rising popularity in the dancing world threatened the job of the dancing company’s co-founder. She was let go to save the co-founder’s reputation. Though to Brooks, at the moment, she may have thought she had been thrown in a desperate situation, her dismissal was a blessing in disguise. Louise was signed by Paramount Pictures which launched her into stardom. Brooks’ new profession as an actress

Women in the Roaring 20’s Women’s fashion was a social controversy in the 1920’s. This controversy was influenced by women’s clothing, swimwear, hairstyles, makeup, and attitude alone. This attire and new found character traits added a certain attitude and confidence to these women, starting what would eventually be remembered as a revolution. Before the 1920’s, women’s attire was considered fairly

Fashion in the 1920's The Roaring Twenties brought many fads and fashion rages. During the 1920's, Americans were given the honor of being called the "best- dressed". Several things contributed to this honor: Affordable pricing, mass production clothing, the birth of the "flapper girl", and rise of fashionable movie stars that Americans wanted to imitate. The style and cut of women's clothing during the 1920's changed drastically. Waistlines dropped dramatically while hemlines rose scandalously

Where there’s smoke there’s fire by Russell Patterson Russell Patterson (December 26, 1893- March 17, 1977) was a celebrated and prolific American cartoonist, illustrator. Patterson's art helped develop and promote the idea of fashion style known as the flapper in the 1920s and 1930s. Flappers had their own hairstyles and ways of dressing, especially bobbed hair and short skirts. Flappers were a sign of changing times and more freedom for women to express themselves. The message that he is trying

Amanda Ramirez History 207 Professor Greer Golda 23 April 2017 1920’s Women’s Fashion: Research Paper “In any era, fashion is a reflection of the time and what is going on in the culture politically, socially and economically.”1 The 1920’s witnessed a variety of dramatic changes for women; these changes, such as shorter dresses and stronger attitudes occurred primarily after World War I in spite of the prolonged development of women 's’ rights through 1914 and 1920. With their new hair, fashion

In the 1920’s, there were many controversial issues going on such as prohibition, the war ending and the view of woman in society. Although, many other issues were prevalent at this time, one that gained a wide variety of attention was the more risqué women of the 1920’s, flappers. Many at this time still believed that woman should only be in the background and not be seen as a public figure, but many woman began to disagree and were ready for their on way, leading to the beginning of flappers. The

Lipstick lived a life that so many women of the 1920’s wanted to be. Then there was the movie stars. Clara, Colleen, and Brooks were the flappers on the screen. Surprisingly only one of these girls actually embodied the flapper lifestyle off the screen. Brooks was this single actress. She slept with various actors, directors, and partied late. She drank and smoked. Brooks was actually from Kansas but literally ripped the Kansas out of her and built up a New York flapper instead. She hated Hollywood

1.) In paragraph 13, the writer says that the flapper was “as standardized as a chain hotel”; by what he means is that the flappers were similar- almost the same to one another, much like a chain hotel. He generalizes flappers to be all the same and compares the flapper’s dress to be a “national product”, as in something that was the same throughout the country. “There is no distinction in the cut of clothing between the rich flapper and the poor flapper - national advertising has attended to that

The Flappers were young, middle-classed women who expressed what was considered unacceptable behavior during the 1920s. The Flappers were known as the very first generation of independent woman in America. They pronounced the new and resented fashion of bobbed hair, short skirts, smoking cigarettes, partying, drinking alcohol and having many partners. The Flappers of the 1920s impacted literature in the way of representation of women through writing, new literature being written about The Flappers