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World War I
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Before the start of World War I, the Gibson girl was the rage; she did not date, and waited until a proper young man to her for marriage. However, nearly a whole generation of young men had died in the War leaving a whole of young women without desirable suitors. They decided not to waste away their young lives waiting idly for spinsterhood but to enjoy life. The new women broke away from the set conventions, turned fashionable, they the black wool stockings and became crazy about new fashions, wore rayon stockings, feet, ankles, and calves formerly hidden were now on show. Scott Fitzgerald referred to them as a “whole race going hedonistic deciding on pleasure”. The famous film star Louise Brooks became the ideal for young girls, Brook’s exuberant social life, her contacts with the wealthy and her life style inspired young women to break away from the Victorian traditions of repression and conventionality. The Victorian cult of true womanhood preached “piety and purity” as the cardinal virtues for women. They were supposed to follow the dictates of men and domesticity was the chief ideal to be to maintain chastity and purity.
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