Colleen More. Courtesy of the Library of Congress

“They were smart and sophisticated, with an air of independence about them, and so casual about their looks and clothes and manners as to be almost slapdash. I don’t know if I realized as soon as I began seeing them that they represented the wave of the future, but I do know I was drawn to them. I shared their restlessness, understood their determination to free themselves of the Victorian shackles of the pre-World War I era and find out for themselves what life was all about.”
― Colleen Moore

Change

Right in between the horrific First World War and the Great Depression was the fun “pleasure-seeking” decade of the 1920s. Often labeled the Roaring Twenties, this decade/era saw a crazy amount of social change, especially for women. This change involved everything from finally gaining the right to vote, to new jobs, to a change in hairstyle. But this change didn’t happen overnight, it was a social change that had been in the making for about twenty years. The long awaited women’s suffrage and the first World War granted women new roles in society. With women’s changing roles in modern society came the change in clothing and fashion. This fashion symbolized this new idea of freedom for women.

The change in women’s fashion in 1920s was sparked by the social movements that began in the beginning of the 20th century.