Talk:1920s in Western fashion

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CITATION NEEDED
Guys. People. Wikipedia should be better than this. There are no citations anywhere! It's so sad! --Guugolpl0x (talk) 18:37, 13 January 2009 (UTC)


 * you're right 2800:A4:3381:4D00:7801:D332:65A0:BE07 (talk) 20:07, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Split
I have moved the "Transition" section to a new article 1930-1945 in fashion (previously that was a redirect to the History of fashion design. It needs lots of work, you can help! - PKM 18:50, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Coco Chanel
I think we should add a bit about Coco Chanel being an important figure in 1920s fashion. We should also name other prominent fashion designers of that era. --Ytred 04:13, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

To-do
I have added back in a bunch of content that was missed in reverting vandalism back in December. We should run a compare to see if smaller bits of good content are still missing.

I agree on Coco Chanel.

We also need:


 * In-line citations
 * wikilinks to all the designers and to specific items of clothing

Will work on this as time permits. - PKM (talk) 19:25, 3 February 2008 (UTC)u guys hav no idea

Tuxedo
Maybe this is more of a nationality thing, being a Brit, but my impression is that Tuxedos only began to become acceptable towards the end of the twenties and the apparent assertion that they were preferred may be both slightly premature and contradictory of the first menswear paragraph. Brilliantine (talk) 15:40, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Let me do some research on that.... - PKM (talk) 17:50, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Tuxedos worn with bowler hats??? I don't think so. Will find a reference--Msilverstar (talk) 17:06, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Worldwide View?
I don't think that this article represents a world-wide perspective? Adding fashion trends from across the globe onto this page may be too much. Maybe we should specify somewhere that this page relates mostly to the western world? — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Farewell Party (talk • contribs) 05:10, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * And even within that it is mostly American Johnbod (talk) 13:31, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Agreed - for example, all the talk of Prohibition is only relevant to one country. ( Covertly-cantankerous (talk) 18:35, 15 December 2011 (UTC

Globalize template
This article is labeled as dealing with "fashion," but appears to deal almost exclusively with European and American fashion; therefore I have added the globalize template. Articles dealing with 1909 and before are expressly limited to Western fashion in the intro paragraph, apparently on the basis that fashion was mostly a Western thing during those periods, but articles about "fashion" in recent periods need to be global in scope. Elliotreed (talk) 19:02, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

One paradox of 1920s fashion
The 1920s were the era when women's clothes stopped being constrictingly Victorian, but also the first time that women thought about shaving their armpits (I'm not sure how common it was for women to do that during the 1920s, but it was the first time that the issue even arose). Churchh (talk) 05:18, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I believe it was during WWI (around 1915?) that adverts began to sell razors to women, and they were smaller and more delicate to shave the armpits. Gillette says in a 1917 advert for the women's razor: "Milady Decolette is the dainty little Gillette used by the well-groomed woman to keep the underarm white and smooth." Becsh (talk) 18:19, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the information, but as far as I can tell, the only clothes commonly worn by ordinary women in 1915 or 1917 which publicly displayed the armpits were some variations on swimming/sea-bathing costumes, and women could easily avoid the whole issue at that time by wearing other variations that had little short sleeves. (On land, even the severely practical clothing of the "suffrage farmerettes" didn't expose the armpits.)
 * I still think that it was more likely during the 1920s when the general style trends of the decade (for dresses, not swimwear) caused the majority of women to first confront the issue personally (as it applied to themselves). Churchh (talk) 11:36, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Caption grammar error
One of the captions says "By early 1920s, most women not dared to bob their hair, so they pinned up to look shorter. Mlle Cayet, Queen of Parisian Carnival, 1922". 108.77.90.120 (talk) 13:32, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Unused title
The part titled jewelries just says "the jewelries were not determined by the cost of materials" and then it ends. Jewelry later in the accessories part. Add aficionado (talk) 13:00, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

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