The 1920's, a period that saw dramatic changes in dress, was perhaps the first
            
             "modern" decade of the twentieth century. The corseted woman of the previous decade,
            
             with her hobble skirts and huge hats, looked as if she came from another world when
            
             compared to the 'modern' woman of the 1920's. The result was extreme. Fashionable
            
             1920's female body evolved from the elaborately trimmed dress with its high waist
            
             position and ankle length skirt at the beginning, to the simple, hardly decorated, shapeless
            
             tube with a hip level waistline and a skirt barely covering the knees at the end of the
            
             decade. The initiation of the new fashion boom all began with their change in social
            
             aspects and attitudes along with their new way of life. The women's independence
            
             movement of the 1920's resulted in a dramatic change in dress as shown by the desire to
            
             look youthful, boyish, flat-chested, and at the same time want her independence and
            
             freedom.
            
             The 1920's was the new decade of the century. This was the Jazz Age, the decade of
            
             the flappers. 1920's opened with an explosion of color, wailing sounds, fast rhythms of
            
             jazz, and energetic dancing. Everyone was into learning the latest dance, the "Charleston."
            
             It was attitude, a period of escapism, a youthful reaction against the dark and serious
            
             clothes. These were the days to rebel. "From 1920-1930, the world was one big party,
            
             aptly described by the phrase "The Roaring Twenties." (Presley,p3)
            
             Women slowly began joining socialist party's with the influence of increasing local
            
             socialist women's organizations and a national magazine of that day, Socialist Woman.
            
             One major question, which arose to many women's minds was, once economic base of
            
             sexual oppression was corrected, would equality follow? (Zinn,p45) That argument
            
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