The 1920s perceived increment in prosperity gave the opportunity to many social groups to emerge and have express themselves more freely.
The Lost Generation was born right before or right after 1900, and came of age during WWI. But their disillusionment affected even younger people
In the 1920s, when the war was over, many house appliances that we take for granted today appeared on the market, with prices many people could afford.
It would be impossible to undervalue the importance of jazz in the 1920s. Far from being a mere form of music, jazz was the language of the new world. It incarnated everything modern, new, daring and futuristic.
At the moment in which the United States’s presence on the world stage became more critical, they pulled back and pursued a policy of isolationism.
Houses in the 1920s change dramatically. The the massive electrification of the cities allowed for new home layouts and interior decorations
Games became a craze in the 1920s. Board games and especially sports were a new mode of being together, especially for young people.
1920s fashion is one of the most recognizable elements of that decade. Women’s fashion changed most drastically, but the change was in fact general.
In the 1920s, life changed widely for all sections of society. Language changed too, trying to describe this new reality. All forms of expressions changed.
Art Deco was an innovative artistic language, apt to describe the new world and the new lifestyle. It propose a form of art created for the everyday life
In the 1920s, an entire, quite large section of society, the middle-class, knew an unprecedented growth in prosperity, which characterised the entire era
The Twenties were a time a great innovation. The old world that had existed in the 1800s died in the fires and destruction of WWI. The 1920s saw the emergence of a new world.