Fads and Fashion of the 1920s

The 1920s: fads, trends, and the American Century

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Frank Farnum coaching Pauline Starke. And now the Charleston is moving into the movies! Pauline Starke will innovate it to the pic public at large when in the office of a chorus girl in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer'south 'A Little bit of Broadway,' she performs it on the screen. Frank Farnum, originator of the step, gave her first-hand (or human foot) instructions.

Full length portrait of a young woman in a long raccoon coat, getting into an automobile in front of Capitol.

Bill Norton the bathing beach policeman measuring distance between knee and bathing arrange on women in Washington, D.C. Col. Sherrell, Supt. of Public Buildings and Grounds, had issued an gild that bathing suits at the Washington bathing beach must not be over half dozen inches above the genu.

'Position is everything in life,' anyway its a lot in the life of John Reynolds better known as the 'human fly.' He is shown doing his stuff on the flag pole of the Times-Herald Building in Washington, D.C.

'Fearless Freddie,' a Hollywood stunt human, clinging to a rope ladder slung from a airplane flown past A.M. Maltrup, nigh to driblet into automobile beneath (not shown).

The Henry Ford & Greenfield Village/AP

Henry Ford is pictured with a Model T in Buffalo, New York, in 1921. About one million Model T'due south were produced in 1921.

In this file photograph from an unknown source, women oversupply the counters of one of the showtime Sears retail stores in 1925. Sears once was the store of selection for near Americans, famed for its 'Large Book Catalogue' and beingness the nation'due south biggest department store operator.

New York Stock Exchange/Library of Congress

Telephone operator at post, demonstrating a new quotation system at the New York Stock Exchange.

Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh stands beside his aeroplane The Spirit of St. Louis in 1927 before his historic solo flying across the Atlantic to Paris.

People line upward who have been arrested in the federal drive confronting radicals as they arrive at Ellis Isle, in New York City, on April 7, 1920. Deportation hearings were held on the island to determine whether they were to stay in the United States.

Marcus Garvey is shown in a war machine uniform as the 'Provisional President of Africa' during a parade on the opening twenty-four hours of the almanac Convention of the Negro Peoples of the Globe at Lenox Avenue in Harlem, New York, August 1922. Garvey helped spark movements from African nationalist independence to American ceremonious rights to cocky-sufficiency in blackness commerce.

Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks at a huge Alfred E. Smith - Joseph T. Robinson rally at Madison Foursquare Garden in New York, on November 3, 1928. Smith was running for president with running mate Robinson.

Dr. Albert Einstein writes out an equation for the density of the Galaxy on the blackboard at the Carnegie Institute, Mt. Wilson Observatory headquarters in Pasadena, Calif., in this Jan. xiv, 1931 file photo. Einstein, who radically changed mankind'south vision of the universe, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.