What’s Going On Socially?In the 1930s

Fashions• Reused materials, in an effort to save money• Women went for a sleek look• Flapper dress = out• Style was influenced by Hollywood movies• Muted and deep colors were popular• Abstract and geometric fabrics• Wool, silk, cotton

Fashions (Cont.)• Coats and outerwear – fur• Swimwear – lastex• Lastex-thread of rubber wrapped with a fiber such as cotton• tight long shirts• Ankle length shoes•Powder was used on their faces as makeup• Hairstyles were long

Music

Literature• New York Daily had some of the most popular comic strips, including Krazy Kat and Dick Tracy•Steinbeck was an admired author ofbooks like The Pearl and Of Mice and Men• His stories portrayed both the good and the bad parts of being American

Movies/ Theatre• Contrary to popular belief, movies were a luxury during the thirties, and movie businesses lost millions of dollars • Films became more realistic, acting was less

staged and comical•Color started to be consistently used, gaining

an eventual popularity•Some famous movies were: The Wizard of Oz,

Gone with the Wind, and The Public Enemy

The Wizard of Oz

Sports• More than fifty thousand schools

participated in basketball •Little League grew more popular, became

a bigger thing• Golf and tennis open to public• School and College segregated sports• Baseball players like Babe Ruth and Lou

Gehrig had larger salaries than the president

People’s Free Time• Had to be weary, as the price of living

was up• Festivals • Folk dancing sometimes• Interest in sports• Pinball and miniature golf •Stamp collecting•Warner Brothers Monopoly •Winter Olympics

Popular African Americans