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Trends
Coco Chanel
The New Consumer
Modernism
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Men’s
clothing:
Women’s
clothing:
“Knickers”
Flapper dresses
Sleek
suits
Undergarments
Short
hairstyles
Hats
(fedoras)
Fashion houses
Typical store offers three types of services:
“Model Gown Salon”
Inexpensive dressmaking department
Cut-and-fit department
Window shopping
New rational sizing system
sorted customers into 6 different personality types:
1. The Romantic
2. The Statuesque
3. The Artistic
4. The Picturesque
5. The Modern
6. The Conventional
Interest in modern technology and communication
Based on three key ideas:
New materials
Mass production
Degree of automation
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Name: Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel
Date of Birth: August 19, 1883
Family:
was never married
had relationships with
wealthy military officer, English
industrialist, and
Pierre Wertheimer
Accomplishments:
1. 1920 – fashion houses
expanded considerably
2. 1922 –Chanel introduces
her Chanel No. 5 perfume
3. 1925 – Chanel introduces
signature cardigan
4. 1926 – “Little Black
Dress” introduced
5. 1954 – Successful
comeback as first ranks in
Haute
Death
January 10, 1971
Growing Money
Walter Chrysler
Shrinking Money
After The Great War, the economy did not decline as
expected
It kept growing until mid-1920s
“Small recession” between 1920-1922
National income grew from $58 billion to $83 billion
Reliance on technology grew
1929, the Stock Market Crashed, on Black Tuesday
13 Million were unemployed
Stock Market lost over 90% of its value
Some cities had up to 80% unemployment
Name: Walter Percy Chrysler
Date of Birth: April 2, 1875 in
Wamego, Kansas
Family: Della Chrysler and
Sons, Walter P. Chrysler Jr. &
Jack Forker Chrysler
Accomplishments:
-After 8 years working with Buick,
he guided it to make 600 cars a day
from 45/day
-From 1916 to 1919, President of
Buick
-On June 6, 1925, he began the
Chrysler Corporation
-Featured on the cover of TIME on
the April 20th, 1925 issue
-Named TIME Man of the Year,
January 7th, 1929
Death
August 18, 1940
Pre-Crash
Barbara Hutton
Post-Crash
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Everything was based upon money and connections
Mingled with new rich at clubs and social gatherings, but
never as flashy as them
A time of freedom for the rich, as they flaunted their
wealth at parties and clubs with jazz and alcohol, even
during prohibition
Term “socialite” coined in late 1920s by co-founder of
Time Magazine, Briton Hadden; meant rich and a little
racy, a class of leisure in a society of workers
“Who cares” attitude
“Ridin’ High" by Cole Porter
What do I care, if Mrs. Harrison Williams
Is the best-dressed woman in town.
What do I care if Countess Barbara Hutton
Has a Rolls-Royce built for each gown.
Why should I get the vapors
When I read in the papers
That Mrs. Simpson dined behind the throne?
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I’ve got a cute king of my own.
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Rich may have even flaunted
their money more than before
Upper class began to resent
lower classes as New Deal
programs began to be
implemented
Crash and Great Depression
didn’t affect old habits and
nightlife
During Great Depression, most
rich kept their money; led to
resentment from the lower
classes
"Negro" by Langston Hughes
I am a Negro:
Black as the night is black,
Black like the depths of my Africa.
I’ve been a slave:
Caesar told me to keep his door-steps clean.
I brushed the boots of Washington.
I’ve been a worker:
Under my hand the pyramids arose.
I made mortar for the Woolworth Building.
I’ve been a singer:
All the way from Africa to Georgia
I carried my sorrow songs.
I made ragtime.
I’ve been a victim:
The Belgians cut off my hands in the Congo.
They lynch me still in Mississippi.
I am a Negro:
Black as the night is black,
Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Accomplishments:
Inherited $50 million =
“Poor Little Rich Girl”
Name: Barbara Woolworth HuttonHer debutante
the most
Date of Birth: Novemberball
14,was
1912
expensive in
history, at $50,000
During world war II she
sold war bonds and
donated her London
mansion to the U.S
Death
Kicked off
Barbara died of
Social Register after
heart attack in
divorcing
1979 in hotel –
Prince Alexis
most of her
Mdivini
fortune was gone
Family:
Frank W. Woolworth
Suicidal Mother
Franklin Hutton
Lance in plane crash
Many Marriages
Music
Dance
Jack Dempsey
Movies
Sports
CHICAGO
NEW YORK
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NEW ORLEANS
KANSAS CITY
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-Chicago in the 1920s held great opportunities for
musicians.
-The city was dominated by gangsters and their cabaret
and dance clubs.
-The "New Orleans sound" spread throughout Chicago's
South Side, the Plantation, the Nest, and the Sunset.
-While still called "New Orleans jazz," the jazz played in
Chicago was more uniform and less wild and primitive
than it was in Louisiana.
-Jazz became "polite" and directed at the white, middle
class audiences who frequented the dance halls in
Chicago.
-Jazz music remained almost exclusively "The Sound
of New Orleans."
-Artists such as King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, and
Kid Ory established well known reputations for their
original jazz music.
-The New Orleans jazz bands of the early 1920s
consisted of three voices (cornet, clarinet, and
trombone) and a rhythm section.
-The early New York Jazz music was influenced by
ragtime music, which had been popular there in the
early 1900s.
- After the stock market crash in 1929 that New
York replaced Chicago as a jazz capital
-Known for two main reasons: the Harlem
Renaissance and the Harlem Big Bands
-Jazz musicians poured into Kansas City after the
mass exodus from New Orleans.
-There were over fifty jazz clubs in one, six-block
district.
-Benny Moten's band consisted of six musicians in
1923, eight musicians in 1924, and by 1926, the
band was made up of ten musicians.
1920-23 - National Football League formed; baseball's Negro National
League formed; Babe Ruth sold to New York Yankees and hits 54 home
runs; The schooner Bluenose begins her undefeated career in racing;
First sub-one minute 100m freestyle swim; Ty Cobb breaks Honus
Wagner's major league record for career hits
1924-25 - First Winter Olympic Games; in the Summer Olympics; French
Open in tennis opened to non-French players for the first time; first
handball international between Germany and Belgium
1926-27 - Jack Dempsey loses his world heavyweight boxing title to
Gene Tunney; Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the
English channel; First Ryder Cup of golf
1928-29 - Women's Olympic athletics and gymnastics are held for the
first time at the 1928 Summer Olympics;
1938-39 - Don Budge becomes the first person to win the Grand Slam in
tennis; First NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship; the
Baseball Hall of Fame opens; Lou Gehrig retires from baseball
1935-37 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly non-stop
between Hawaii and Oakland, CA.; Joe Louis becomes world
heavyweight champion
1934-35 - The Masters in golf first held; Babe Ruth retires from Major
League Baseball
1932 -33- India become the sixth Test cricketing nation; first NFL
championship game played
1930-31 - First Football World Cup; Anne Morrow Lindbergh is the first
woman to earn a glider pilot's license; Baseball Commissioner Judge
Kenesaw Mountain Landis bans women from professional baseball (the
bans lasts until 1992), after 17-year-old pitcher Virne Beatrice "Jackie"
Mitchell strikes out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig
1920s Top 3
1930s Top 3
Made in 1925
17 Cast members
Took in $6,400,000 at the box office, $22,000,000
worldwide
Made in 1921
Became the sixth best grossing silent
film of all time.
Screenwriter June Mathis became head of the scenario
department for Metro Pictures. With this position she
became one of the first female executives in film history
One of the first films to make $1,000,000 at
the box office
Made in 1925
Audiences flocked to Ben-Hur after its premiere and the
picture grossed nine million dollars
Its huge expenses and the deal with Erlanger made it a
losing film for MGM.
MGM was unable to recoup its $4,000,000 investment.
Made in 1939
It received ten Academy Awards, a record
that stood for twenty years.
The Hays Office fined Selznick $5,000 for using the
word "damn" in Butler's exit line
Estimated production costs were $3.9 million
Made in 1937
Based on the German fairytale
Originally know as The Queen
Made in 1939
The film grossed approximately $3 million;
A 1949 re-release earned an additional $1.5 million
Received 15 honors over the past 10 years
DANCE MARATHONS
FOX TROT
- The craze began in 1923, when 32-year old Alma Cummings
-Originated
in the summer
of 1914
by Vaudeville
actor Harry
Fox
danced non-stop
for 27 hours,
wearing
out six different
partners
Jardindance
de Danse
on ever
the roof
of thewas
Newa York
Theatre.
--In
Thethe
longest
record
recorded
record
of 3 weeks of dancing.
-The most significant development in all of ballroom dancing
-Contests were held, which dancers could enter solo or with a specific partner
CHARLESTON
-Discovered by the black community, while dancing to contemporary Jazz music
-Originated as early as 1903 of a small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina
-1923 hit Broadway musical called Runnin’ Wild featured the song "Charleston."
Name: Williams Harrison Dempsey
Date of Birth: June 24, 1895
Changed his name at age 19
-Dempsey earned more than
$3,500,000
-Drew the world's first milliondollar gate against Georges
Carpentier
Accomplishments:
-Dempsey made two films during
his career, "Daredevil Jack" &
"Manhattan Madness" He also costarred in a Broadway play called
"The Big Fight" with this then wife
Estelle Taylor.
-Inducted into the boxing Hall of
Fame in 1990
-In 2003, Dempsey was named the
seventh best puncher of all time in
boxing history by Ring Magazine
Death
May 1, 1983