1920s journalist

Secretaries have fed the imagination since the first one entered the office in the 1880s. Secretaries appeared in different stages of nudity in pictures ranging from innocent leg-shots to total nudes and beyond. Produced in France in the 1920s, these photos are early examples of women being sexualized in a office setting. See more on the Virtual Typewriter Museum.

WOMEN’S SUITS Cultural critics were not incensed about ladies’ suits, which had hung in ladies closets since the fin de siècle and had loose jackets and full skirts in the Après Guerre.…

A 1920's journalist/reporter character design for practice.

Just like 1920s blouses, skirts during the twenties went from the vogue thing to wear in the early years to out of fashion by mid-decade. Women wore skirt and blouse separates around the house and while visiting friends, traveling, playing sports, and running into town in casual, comfortable attire. In most cases, they were not

1920's women's fashion

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A victory for birth control advocates today, as charges were dismissed against all five defendants arrested on April 15th for distributing contraceptive information, a violation of Section 1142 of the New York State Penal Code.

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Rosalind Russell enjoying her work as a newspaper reporter in His Girl Friday (1940)