Beginning Nov. 4 the Mob Museum in Las Vegas will feature the impact the Prohibition Era had on women as told through fashion in "Ready to Roar."
The museum, in partnership with UNLV, will debut its first fashion-centric exhibition featuring the changing styles of the Prohibition Era. On display will be dresses and accessories from the 1920s through the early 1930s, including purses from APCS member Jennifer Whitehair.
The 1920s saw a boom in fashion commerce with more options, more buying power for women, and more mobility. Advances in chemistry and technology brought new dye colors, silk and velvet became available to a wider audience, and new materials like rayon an celluloid were used. The new mobility with the widespread availability of cars put an emphasis on easy to carry acessories and easy to where clothes.
The prohibition Era saw the growth of speakeasies where, for the first time, women were seen drinking in public with men. Women, who now had the right to vote, were throwing of the last vestiges of Victorianism and were exploring progressive views about fashion, sexuality and the so-called vices.
The exhibit ( which will be on display Nv. 4 through Feb.28, 2017) is included in regular admission to the museum.