What was canadian female fashion like in the 1920s?
In the 1920’s, women’s fashions changed dramatically. Before, women’s hems always covered their ankles. In the 1920s, hemlines went all the way up to the knee. Hair styles changed too. Until this time, women always wore their hair long. Young girls would wear their hair down, usually in braids or otherwise tied back in some way. When a girl became older, around fourteen or fifteen, she would pin her hair up as older women did. This was consider an important moment in the life of a girl, a sign that she was moving towards womanhood. Suddenly, in the 1920’s, women began to “bob” their hair, to wear it cut to about chin-length. At first, this was considered scandalous. In the 1920s, for the first time, it became acceptable for women to wear lipstick, rouge and mascara.
