The Great Gatsby: The 20's: A Booming Society

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The Great Gatsby In the novel The Great Gatsby it is greatly seen how the roaring 20’s was a booming society after the World War One. The Roaring Twenties was a period when economic success was sustained. This was a time to rejoice as well as a time to overcome the restrictions of the Victorian era. The fashion in the 20’s was less restricting than the past years and began to wear more comfortable clothes such as short skirts or trousers, the music was all about the jazz and the alcohol and dancing this was rapidly developing in Chicago, the most popular dances during the decade the foxtrot, waltz, and American tango. The fashion in the 20’s were also called the flapper era, Women’s fashions in the early 1920's experienced powerful changes

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