After the war, jazz ladies celebrate the Roaring '20s with flapper dresses and short skirts. Boyish figures are in, with flattened bust, and bobbed hair. Men add swing to their step with wide-leg pants, knickerbockers, and knitted pullovers. As if in anticipation of the market's fall, skirts lengthen before the crash of 1929. World War II brings even greater freedom in women's lives, and ushers in the creation of nylon.
Women line up at department stores to buy nylons, which replace flesh-colored silk stockings.
A new emphasis on the leg comes into vogue. After World War II, femininity returns. In the late '50s, for the first time, children and young people start to get fashions of their own - instead of wearing smaller versions of their parents' clothes. In America, bobby soxers in poodle skirts and saddle shoes hold hands with greasers in tight jeans, white T-shirts, and loafers. The '60s see another fashion revolution, but very different than the one Dior imposed.