1920’s: Fads and Fashions
· Fads caught on quickly during the 1920’s.
Ex.) dance marathons, flagpole sitting
· Flapper – young woman in the 1920’s who declared her independence from traditional rules.
How did flappers rebel against traditional ways of thinking?
- short, bobbed hair
- short skirts
- bright-red lipstick
- smoked cigarettes in public
- drank alcohol in speakeasies
- danced at jazz clubs
· Jazz music was created by African-Americans by combining African rhythms and European harmonies.
Ex.) Louis Armstrong was one of the first famous jazz musicians of the 1920’s.
· Jazz music brought new forms of dancing.
Ex.) the Charleston and the shimmy
· Older Americans worried that jazz music was a bad influence on the nation’s young people.
