The Twenties: Fads, Dress, and Trends
Selected Images from the Collections of the Library of Congress
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![Look pleasant, please](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/cai/2a12000/2a12800/2a12868t.gif)
Look pleasant, please
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![["Fearless Freddie," a Hollywood stunt man, clinging to a rope ladder slung from a plane flown by A.M. Maltrup, about to drop into automobile below: automobile not shown]](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b10000/3b18000/3b18300/3b18312t.gif)
"Fearless Freddie," a Hollywood stunt man, clinging to a rope ladder slung from a plane
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![Measuring F Street in the National Capitol during the rush hours of the afternoon with a one foot rule, was the initiation stunt wished on this applicant for membership in a local college fraternity](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b40000/3b45000/3b45800/3b45865t.gif)
Measuring F Street in the National Capitol during the rush hours of the afternoon with a one foot rule
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![Senator Truman H. Newberry of Mich. snapped at the Chevy Chase Club](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b40000/3b45000/3b45800/3b45867t.gif)
Senator Truman H. Newberry of Mich. snapped at the Chevy Chase Club
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![Col. Sherrell, Supt. of Public Buildings and Grounds, has issued an order that bathing suits at the Wash[ington] bathing beach must not be over six inches above the knee](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b40000/3b45000/3b45800/3b45864t.gif)
Bathing suits at the Wash[ington] bathing beach must not be over six inches above the knee
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![[Eight women and one child(?) performing Greek dance outdoors, Washington, D.C. area]](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b40000/3b45000/3b45800/3b45862t.gif)
Women performing Greek dance outdoors
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![Police raid a gambler's den. Several loads of book makers were taken from the E. St. address by the police](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b40000/3b45000/3b45800/3b45870t.gif)
Police raid a gambler's den
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![Mary LaFollette, full-length portrait in long raccoon coat, getting into auto in front of Capitol.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a20000/3a29000/3a29800/3a29877t.gif)
Mary LaFollette, full-length portrait in long raccoon coat
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![Frank Farnum coaching Pauline Starke. And now the Charleston is moving into the movies!](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b40000/3b45000/3b45800/3b45868t.gif)
Frank Farnum coaching Pauline Starke. And now the Charleston is moving into the movies!
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!["Position is everything in life," anyway its a lot in the life of John Reynolds better known as the "human fly." He is shown doing his stuff on the flag pole of the Times-Herald Bldg. Wash[ington] D.C.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b40000/3b45000/3b45800/3b45866t.gif)
John Reynolds better known as the "human fly." He is shown doing his stuff on a flag pole
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![[Group of seven musicians including Charlie Miller, Elwood Wilson, and Robert Blatt, probably members of a Washington, D.C. orchestra, in a hotel at 2400 16th St., N.W.]](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b40000/3b45000/3b45800/3b45861t.gif)
Group of seven musicians, members of a Washington, D.C. orchestra
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![Three girls using holders, one a long tube](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a40000/3a42000/3a42300/3a42393t.gif)
The latest in cigarette holders
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![Suzette Dewey, daughter of Charles Dewey, posed beside roadster](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a30000/3a36000/3a36000/3a36091t.gif)
Suzette Dewey, daughter of Charles Dewey, posed beside roadster
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![[Side view of a Ford sedan with four passengers and a woman getting in on the driver's side]](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b00000/3b02000/3b02000/3b02058t.gif)
[Side view of a Ford sedan with four passengers and a woman getting in on the driver's side]
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![Mme. Asta Souvorina, 'the Bernhardt of Russia,' ... and Buster [dog] listening in on the radiophone](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b20000/3b25000/3b25100/3b25187t.gif)
Mme. Asta Souvorina, the "Bernhardt of Russia," driven out by Boshevists, now in New York - a radio fan
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![Telephone operator at post, new quotation system, New York Stock Exchange](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c00000/3c04000/3c04000/3c04022t.gif)
Telephone operator at post, new quotation system, New York Stock Exchange
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![[Charles Lindbergh, 1902-1974, three-quarter length portrait, standing, left profile, working on engine of "The Spirit of St. Louis"]](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a50000/3a51000/3a51800/3a51858t.gif)
[Charles Lindbergh, 1902-1974, three-quarter length portrait, standing, left profile, working on engine of "The Spirit of St. Louis"] LC-USZ62-51834 |
![Charter members of the Anti-flirt Club](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a40000/3a42000/3a42400/3a42405t.gif)
Charter members of the Anti-flirt Club
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!["The Dancing Marathon"](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a30000/3a35000/3a35300/3a35304t.gif)
"The Dancing Marathon"
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![Ku Klux Klan initiation](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081015110808im_/http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a20000/3a28000/3a28800/3a28807t.gif)
Ku Klux Klan initiation - no. 2
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