Dress and The Future: 1920s Women's Fashion

A)
If you look at society today you can see elements of women’s dress in the 1920s and see how this fashion looks 80 plus years after the fact. This type of fashion hasn’t disappeared. However it has changed. Girls and women still wear their hair short. The “bob” style has been adapted to society. Changes have come through an a line cut or with women spiking their hair with hair gel. I have even seen people with hair to their chin in front but with short spiky hair in the back. Women would drape jewelry around their necks and down their body. This practice has been adapted yet again. Jewelry is still being draped around a women’s body but not at such lengths as it was in the 1920s. Even elements of the flapper dress are still around in today’s society. One example would be skirts that look like they belong on a flapper dress. When I did dance in junior high one of my costumes was a flapper like top. Also the flapper dress can still be found around Halloween time. With girls dressed up with the black flapper dress, long beads and a wig of the classing 1920s “bob” style.

People who are still wearing this dress our girls and women. I think this dress practice will never end. However as I have mentioned above it has changed. In a way it has been “culturally authenticated.” I believe a prime example of this is the way that the “bob” haircut has changed. There are multiple ways that a woman can wear her short hair. The dress practice has a future because it was a timeless fashion that will probably never be forgotten (you can especially see this from the pictures below).

B)
Refer to pictures above to see how women's fashion from the 1920s has changed and what it might look like in the future.