Weekend With Shades - Saturday - September 12

THE YEAR WAS
BY SHERI FENLEY
A Monthly - Weekend With Shades - Column

The "Roaring 20's" and the "Jazz Age" were in full swing - bathtub gin, Flappers, speakeasies, dance marathons. Americans in the 1920s were the first to wear ready-made, exact-sized clothing. Women smoking cigarettes, cosmetics, and synthetic fabrics such as rayon, newspaper gossip columns, illuminated billboards, commercial airplane flights--all were novelties during the 1920s.