The New Woman was always about mobility. She was about getting out of the house and creating a new life for herself. She was about to become visible and active. She was about change and new ways.
The debate over women’s proper dress became quite heated in Victorian times. Women’s ‘rational dresses’ caused much anxiety and concern.
The role and the expectation of women had already started to change at the end of the 19th century. WWI hugely accelerated that process. With men away at war, women took up most of the work of men in all fields, and not all of them were ready to renounce it when men returned from…
Women’s experience as nurses in WWI factored into the advancement of their social role even after the war. During the war, women proved to be able to do what men did, to sustain the same stress and the same roles. Both women and men brought this knowledge home when the war was over.
Many different practises marked the shift in women’s role in the 1920s, and dating, funnily enough, was one of the most visible, most powerful and most feared.
GANG ROUNDUP (August 2020) The 1920s were a time of change and innovation in so many areas of life: women’s life, inventions, society.
In many respect, the 1920s was the decade of the woman. The perception of women and what they could and should do changed in the mind of both men and women.
Suffrage movements were old history in the 1920s, when the women of a few nations finally won their right to wote. But the fight had started in the 1800s
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, an entire, quite large section of society, the middle-class, knew an unprecedented growth in prosperity, which characterised the entire era
Celebrating Armistice Day, looking up the new ‘Diesel Era’ film trailers, some new idea for historical reading. The November link roundup.
The cabaret scene in Berlin was very divers. There were different forms of similar entertainment. The tingletingel was a lower form of cabaret