Women’s fashion in America during the twentieth century became an outlet for a struggle to be free. During the beginning of the century, following the First World War, our country was very prosperous, and that is why the twenties are often labeled as the roaring twenties. During this decade, women’s fashion really started to stand out. Women stopped wearing the corset, and wore shorter and slimmer skirts that were more brightly colored. They began to cut their hair shorter. Back then it was regarded as scandalous because it was so different, but women were free to be themselves, and free to flaunt their wealth.

During the thirties, this was a time of very little wealth to the mass majorities, but to those that could afford it, women mostly wore feminine suits, much like Coco Chanel designed. The shoulders were wider, and the hemlines dropped back down from the mid calf level. During World

This is an excerpt in which famous designer Calvin Klein talks about his designs. He categorizes design as modern, which in a sense designs are modern, yet modern is mostly a restoration of the past. This document opposes the idea that fashion is never truly shocking news, but just some old thing that you found in your closet.

Everybody wants to be cool, so fashions are recycled and revived. Changing fashions throughout history was just whatever was different. In the past, like during war times, fabric was restricted, and these were the kinds of factors that influenced fashion. Yet it seems women’s fashion has always gone against what society likes. Were trends really that shocking, or was everything just a recycling of the old fashions? All trends in fashion have and always will be a revival of the past.

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