American Decades

Important Events in Fashion and Design, 1920–1929

Women's hems range from ankle length to calf length.
A new three-button sports coat in cartridge cloth—;the fabric used to hold powder charges during World War I—;becomes a predecessor of the light-weight men's summer suit.
Architect Addison Mizner constructs Palm Beach, Florida, Spanish-style mansions with exotic names (Villa de Sarmiento, El Mirasol) for such millionaires as A. J. Drexel Biddle, George and Isabel Dodge, and Harold S. Vanderbilt.
John Manning Van Heusen introduces a semi-stiff three-ply detached collar.
In New York City Raymond H. Dietrich and Thomas L. Hibbard found LeBaron Carrossiers, an "automotive architecture" firm.
Men's suits with two pairs of pants become popular.
On February 16, James H. Sherburne, chairman of a Massachusetts state commission, reports that working-class purchases of silk stockings and other "long-desired luxuries" have...

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