“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.” - Coco Chanel, revered fashion designer. Many lived by these words in the decade that followed the defeat of Germany in World War 1. With the newly found optimism of the people came a fashion revolution. Young ‘rebel groups’ - particularly women - decided to break out of the ‘traditional Canadian woman’ archetype by taking on an increasingly daring attitude and bold style. This 1920’s time period cultivated the flapper women when it gave birth to new and more provocative trends, many of which our current style trends root from. This era gave way to new and more promiscuous fashion trends that many followed in order to represent their high-class social statuses, a more relaxed …show more content…
As a result of this, an entirely new identity had been established. Social values shared no parallels with things valued only decades before, and the perspective of the people took a liberal shift, similar to how many think today. Shifts in mind-sets introduced the idea of a more liberated environment for women to live in - which became increasingly free with time. Today, women today are able to accomplish goals that were thought best pursued by only men. The fashion of this time period is a reflection of people’s luxurious lifestyles and liberated minds. ‘Flapper Women’ were introduced as a way to challenge the disadvantages and restraints to being a woman. This lead to a fashion revolution in their clothing: smaller corsets, the introduction of bras, higher hemlines, and new, more interesting patterns - many of which we still see on the runway today. Overall, the results produced included a major social attitude shift, a more open-minded approach to the identities of women, and finally, the designs of this era were so forewards-thinking that they have resonated down to the present day. The growth of the liberated fashion era in the 1920’s played a big role in cultivating the society we live in