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WOMENS FASHION (THE ERA OF THE FLAPPER)

• -colorful fabrics and glitter, less material
• Dresses were bright and shorter
• Short bobbed hair
• Flapper -short dresses with straight silhouettes coming to right above knee
• Pantsuits, hats, and canes

MENS FASHION

• Suits were most common
• Suspenders became popular
• Bow ties
• News boy caps
• Pocket watches and canes

TRANSPORTATION

• Only affordable by the wealthy
• Dominant form of travel was trains and ocean liners
• Air travel became available

TRANSPORTATION WITH CARS

• Cars were becoming more popular
• Due to this roads were having to be redeveloped
• The model A replaced the model T

THE MUSIC

• The 1920s served as the birth of the jazz age
• It spread from New Orleans to Chicago and New York
• Broadway Musicals and Ragtime also came to hype

THE MUSIC

• Popular artist included
• King Oliver, Louis Armstrong,
• Kid Ory and Duke Ellington

THE MAFIA

• An American-Italian organized crime network
• Centrally located in New York and Chicago
• We're the center of the liquor trade during prohibition

THE MAFIA

• Well known mobsters are Al Capone and John Gotti
• They accomplished infiltrating labor unions, drug trafficking, and gambling
• The government convicted high ranked mobsters and weakened the mafia
• The Mafia still exist to this day though

DANCE

• The 1920s was considered the dance craze age
• Dance was fast pace and energetic
• Was meant as a distraction from the horrors of war

DANCE

• Popular dances were
• The foxtrot, the charleston
• The tango, and shimming.
• This is also where grinding came into the picture.