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“I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car, I hate it when you stare. I hate your big, dumb combat boots and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick, it even makes me rhyme.”

Happy and sad Halloween pumpkins. Elementary English in Action. Grade 1. 1935.

Fashion Friday: 1920s Fashion

This week we are exploring 1920s American fashion by looking at a scrapbook found in our sibling department the UWM Archives! A young woman named Marguerite Grossenbach kept a scrapbook while she was a student at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee the early 1920s. The scrapbook is found in the archival collection of the Layton School of Art’s founders Charlotte Partridge and Miriam Frink, Milwaukee Mss 167, Box  74.

The scrapbook includes numerous photographs and clippings from magazines and newspapers. It even includes some original fashion drawings by Marguerite Grossenbach! What is so fun to me about looking through this scrapbook is all the 1920s fashion on display. Including an article about “FLAPPERS: Inspiration for the Modern Age” which has great illustrations of short haircuts and depictions of women participating in the workforce as stenographers and engaging in various leisure activities like dancing, smoking, and dating men. Things that may have been seen as risqué in earlier eras. One of my favorite captions is “the society flapper with her musical stride, her tweedy comfort and her desire to be considered ten degrees more wicked than she is.”