1920’S

The Jazz-age.

“THE ROARING TWENTIES”

First beauticians and beauty salons

The zip was introduced to the fashion world

Cinema’s, Cocktail bars, Dancing- flappers

Organised crime

Cars were becoming readily available

Public broadcasting began

Pogo-stick

“THE ROARING TWENTIES”

Nudism

Penicillin discovered

Wall street crash

Great depression

Mickey mouse debuts

Women over 21 were enfranchised.

NEW WORDS

“Heterosexual” “Lesbian”- “queer” “fag”

“Redundant”

“Fascism”

“Oestrogen”

“Hitchhike”

MEDIA

Golden age for nightclubs

Charleston, heebie-jeebie and the shimmy

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FASHION

Women began to wear more comfortable clothing

Women also cut their hair into bobs

Boyish figures