Having won the right to vote when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920, the new “emancipated” woman, the flapper, demanded to be recognized as man’s equal and began to express themselves at the polls. They also took up vices that had long been the province of men, smoking, drinking and indecent behavior. “Opposition to woman suffrage predated the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Men’s views in this patriarchal society believed that women should be excluded from holding office and voting and generally accepted that women …show more content…
The 1920s styles broke rules and showed off the assets of a newly confident American woman. Designers who represented “flapper fashion” such as Coco Chanel, designed clothes for comfort and ease in wear and stressed simplicity and comfort and revolutionized the fashion industry. Her elegantly casual designs inspired women of fashion to abandon the complicated, uncomfortable clothes and believed that “luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury”. (Britannica, 1) Flappers adopted a boyish look, bobbing their hair and abandoning corsets and often going as far as going out braless. Dresses were lighter and thinner and women began to wear silky and chic luxurious silks. (Time, 40) Flappers broke ties with restrained gender roles and explored traditionally masculine fashion