The loosening of restrictions of women was one of the most significant legacies of the 1920s. Around this time, woman are experiencing more freedoms such as the right to vote which was stated in the 19th Amendment. The flapper now became the new icon of young woman. The image she possessed was a saucy, booze-drinking, cigarette smoking flapper. The flapper uprooted the foundations of tradition and morality. Young woman began wearing "less-restricted clothes" such as …showed first 75 words of 292 total…

…showed last 75 words of 292 total…of woman's clothing, such as short skirts and dropped waistlines. As seen in the pictures there was a wide variety of detail in woman's clothing. Some of the pictures are from advertisements in the 1920s; the mind set of the era is evident and it can be derived that woman were revolutionizing. They were no longer inferior to the male and confined in homes. They became a figure active and more confident than ever before.