“ROARING 20’S” FASHION

By: Ian Marini

Significant discoveries

Penicillin Sliced bread Radio Lie detector Talking movies Bubble gum

What’s better than sliced bread???

Walter Diemer invented the first ever gum that “blew bubbles”.

Historical Events

Prohibition – the restriction of the sale, manufacture, import, export and transportation of alcohol. Increase in crime.

First commercial radio broadcast Harlem Renaissance Women granted right to vote First Olympic winter games The great depression Stock market crash Big band theory was introduced

Events

Prohibition – the ban of manufacture, sale, transportation, import, and export of alcohol. Crime rates increased.

Harlem renaissance - African American creative arts associated with the larger New Negro movement

Women right to vote - ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.

First winter Olympics - On January 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps.

Everyday Society

Jazz Age

Fashion during the Harlem Renaissance was very elegant.  Black and white men dressed with suits. Created from different materials, from linen to wool, and leather. Accessories were also added such as bow ties, and ties. The Harlem Renaissance was the birth of a new culture involving Music and Dance. Women would add extra rhinestones and decorations. It was not rare to see several women compliment their clothing with silk gloves or high heeled shoes. In the 1920s, a new woman was born. She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. These women were known as flappers.

Jeanne – Marie Lanvin

From couture in 1909 to men's fashion in 1926, the fashion house 20’s icon an young milliner became the Ambassador of French elegance to transforming her hat and clothing workshops into a fashion empire. She started her career at the age of 13 in the year 1880 at the hat shop of Madam Felix in the famous fashion street of Paris, the Rue du Faubourg Sant Honore. She trained as a dressmaker at a house called Talbot. In 1901 the Lanvin name was added to the French Fashion Yearbook which is a directory of designers and that’s how she became known. While making hats in the first decade of the 1900's, she also made dresses for a younger sister and her daughter. Lanvin's clothes came to the attention of other mothers with daughters, who asked her to make dresses for them, so in 1909 Jeanne began making dresses for sale and her reputation grew in Paris as a designer of mother-daughter fashions.

Jeanne’s Trends

“Robes de Style” velvets and satins Aztec embroidery Breton suit

Boué Soeurs

French sisters who designed this lingerie-style dress intended for a young girl.

sisters Madame Sylvie Montegut and Baronne Jeanne d'Etreillis worked together under their maiden name Boué.

Favored soft colors such as pale blue, coral and cream paired with their trademark laces and metallic accents.