How Did Women Fashion and Attitudes Change During the 1920s?

After researching on the 1920s as well as cultural details for homework, I learned that, according to our McDougal Littell Literature textbook, women, specifically flappers, "embraced new fashions and the urban attitudes" (825).  Thus, I wanted to research more on the different women fashions and "urban attitudes" of the 1920s.  
Women fashion changed dramatically with "the passing of bustles and corsets" (1920-30.com).  As a result, fashion designers were able to create more aesthetically pleasing and meaningful clothes for the young generation.  For example, dresses became more colorful, fabrics became lighter, and dresses became shorter.  By making clothes more colorful, designers "echoed the joy felt by a war weary population following the end of hostilities" (1920-30.com).  Designers used "less material and new synthetic fabrics" (1920-30.com) to make fabrics lighter.  Dresses became shorter because American women wanted to dress like the flappers, "the trendy young women" (1920-30.com).   

Women Fashion of the 1920s

 Although women fashions were very vibrant, their brilliance can only be observed in illustrations, as photographs were black-and-white then.  

Black-and-White Photograph of Women Fashion

In addition to the emerging distinct fashion trends, women started having new "urban attitudes".  Women wanted to be like the trendy flappers, and as a result of the major cultural change of the Roaring Twenties, it was more acceptable for women to be smoking and to be drinking outside of the house.