Roaring Love in the Roaring Twenties
The Jazz Age. An era of new, shiny things— flashy nightlife, extravagant parties, and the lively music of tipsy, outrageous youth. But aside from material elements, this era brought sexual liberation, redefinitions of age old gender roles, and the freedom to choose how you wanted to find love. However, to really understand how revolutionary this era was for romance, we have to go all the way back to the Victorian Era. In the 1800s (back before dating was even a thing), men used to use calling cards during the ‘social season’ (spring and summer) to court young women as their wives. Men looking to court a woman would give their card of information to the butler, and line up in her house. Each would have some time to talk to her parents, have refreshments, and watch her play piano, sing, or display some other talent solely for the man’s entertainment. Marriage wasn’t just a relationship between two people at the time, but a family affair. The general age for a woman to enter the soci...