Fashion

Blog posts about events or people associated with clothing, apparel, hairstyles, etc.

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    The First Miss America Pageant(s)

    Overview Atlantic City & 1920s Tourism Atlantic City, one of New Jersey’s most famous coastal vacation spots, was established in 1854 when a track was created from Camden, NJ, crossing…

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    Miss America: Religion and the Callback to Older Ideas of Femininity

    In the 1920s, American culture was increasingly becoming more secularized, creating tensions between modernity and traditional religious values. The first “Miss America” pageants embodied these conflicts, as it became both…

  • The Roaring 20s and Beyond: A Preliminary Look at the 1920s

    Naturally, when I think about the 1920s, the first thing to come to mind is the idea of the roaring 20s. Although I understand this to be an inaccurate caricature…

  • Revisiting the 1920s

    After spending a full semester, a little over three full months, studying and learning about various topics of the 1920s, I have learned that it is much more than just…

  • “Tut-mania” and the 1923 Exhumation of King Tutankhamun’s Tomb

    Exploration in the 1920s heavily influenced it to be the groundbreaking period that it was. It was a period of indulging in lavish leisure activities and adhering to the newest…

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