This paper
explains the
history of women's fashion from the 1900s through the 1950s and how the economy and popular culture
affected fashion. It explains in detail how the fashion industry was affected by such things as World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. It tells about the "roaring
twenties" and the
flapper style of Coco Chanel, along with Dior's "new look" of the 1940s.