1920s

This was the decade of excitement and women held strong participation. In 1921, the year of the first commercial radio broadcast, women were granted the right to vote in the USA. King Tut's tomb was found in 1922 setting off a world-wide ancient Egypt love affair that manifested in many areas, including women's fashions especially hats. By 1925, when the Charleston was invented, flapper fashions hit the scene. It was the year of Hitler's Mein Kampf and the Scopes Monkey Trial. In 1926, the year A.A. Milne published Winnie-the-Pooh and the year Harry Houdini died, a woman swam the English channel.



The following year the first talking movie was released, The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson. Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean. 1928 was a year of firsts, the first Annual Academy Awards, the first Mickey Mouse cartoon, and the first bubble blown from bubblegum. The decade ended on an optimistic hope, with the first car radio invented, but ended in disaster with the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the Stock Market crash. The decade was fast and furious and life would never be the same afterwards. This was a decade for bobbed hair and smoking in public, not to mention showing your knees. Body styles were thin and curveless with streamlined hats and hairstyles. The hair came off and styles were short or pulled back with ringlets on the forehead and ears.

The bobbed hair of 1922 and beyond was scandalous, because bob-haired women often smoked. The style itself was blamed for loose morality, the breakdown of the family, and was banned from the Royal Court of Queen Mary. The hair dryer was invented, patterned after the vacuum cleaner, to be followed eventually by the blow dryer. 15hqql.

1920	1920	1920

1920 Clara Bow	1920

1921	1921	1921

1921 Agnes Ayres	1921	1921

1922	1922 Lilian Gish	1922

1923	1923	1923 Mabel Ballin

1924	1924	1924

1924	1924

1925 Louise Brooks	1925 Lousie Brooks

1925	1925

1926	1926 Lois Moran

1926 Clara Bow	1926

1926

1927	1927	1927 Claudette Colbert

1927 Mae Murray	1927

1928	1928	1928

1929	1929	1929 Mary Duncan

If no auctions are listed, Refresh (Reload) this page.

Home   Back

1840s   1850s   1860s   1870s   1880s   1890s   1900s   1910s   1920s   1930s   1940s   1950s   1960s   1970s  
exaggerated   bangs   black   blonde   bob   braids   brunette   bun   Celebrity Hair   curly   fantasy   flip   long   mature   medium   pigtails   prom   red   Sedu Celebrity   shag   short   straight   updo   wavy   wedding   Mother of the Bride  

        

What are these faces for?




Free counters provided by Vendio.