Fashion in the

1920s

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The 1920 brought new fashion trends but globally was also a time of luxury and prosperity. Women continued to gain more freedoms and join the workforce, often the first jobs outside of the home for women would be in the textile industry. Women began to show their new found freedoms in their dress as well, short skirts and hairstyles dominated additionally the adoption of trousers and for the first time women were able to show their legs in public with the short dresses and skirts becoming popular. The silhouette of this era was very straight and fashion began to become more comfortable for women.

Coco Chanel was still prevalent in this decade. During this decade Chanel popularized costume jewelry, replacing real jewels with fakes which became highly popular due to the more accessible price. The cardigan style suit was also highly popularized by her. In 1926 she introduced her Little Black Dress which embraced the colour black as a fashionable colour. The simplicity of this look allowed for it to be creatable leading to it's success in later years. Elsa Schiaparelli was also an important rising designer in the 1920s. Schiaparelli used unconventional patterns within her designs, often they were surrealist, and used bright colours that were not often used in fashion during this time. Her use of surrealist motifs led to collaborations with prominent surrealist painters in the 1930s.