Women's Fashion in the 1920's In the early twenties, the features of women's clothing were short skirts and dropped waistlines. The silhouettes of the earlier part of the 1920's are long and cylindrical, with the skirt falling 7" to 10" below the knee. The wide variety of details in the simple style were astonishing because they portrayed an imaginative range of cuts and trims. The long straight style had many variations. One of the extremely popular fashions …showed first 75 words of 524 total…

…showed last 75 words of 524 total…just like the bias cuts. The compromise between the old shorter skirt and the newer longer skirt was that there was a brief period (1928) where evening clothes had both. It was evening wear that lead the way, while day wear was still hooked to the flapper fashion idea. The "flapper" look only lasted about three years, from 1925 to 1928. By 1928 high fashion had drifted onward, but the look of the flapper lives on in popular minds!