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About 1920s
Courtesy of Scurlock Studio Records, around 1905–1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Girls took the styles they saw on movie screens and made them their own.
Girls' fashion choices upset many cultural authorities. Journalists, religious leaders, and others warned of the dangers posed by modern girls.
They made new gender-bending ideas -- such as bobbing their hair -- popular. Americans have forgotten that cutting one's hair was a radical move; short hair upended ideas about female respectability. |