By the beginning of the 1920s, women in much of the Western world had already acquired the right to vote, a conquest of the nineteenth-century suffragist movement.
The women of the 1920s left their corsets and went on to wear short hair, painted eyelids of dark color, red lips, low-cut dresses and knee-high socks the color of the skin.
There has been a major change in fashion and social mores. The women went to the beach in a one-piece swimsuit, smoked in public, drove their own car, and talked about sex. The charleston, vibrant dance with rapid movements of legs and arms infected the young At parties and meetings of high society and the intellectual milieu, homoaffective couples felt free to show themselves.
