"Life is a lot like jazz... It's best when you improvise"
~ George Gershwin
Jazz had a big influence over any form of art. Poetry, fashion and industry were influenced by this "basement" or Devil's music.
In its early years, jazz could also be found in speakeasies; places people of all races could drink, dance and enjoy the music. This made women change the way they dressed, so they could match their style with this new music and be able to dance freely, making drop-waist and dresses without waistlines famous.
Ruth Bryan Owen during campaign to become Florida's first congresswoman, photograph by G. W. Romer, 1929 (detail).
Promotional portrait of Moore at the height of her fame, c. 1927
Actresses such as Clara Bow, Colleen Moore and Joan Crawford inspired and popularized the well known Bob hairstyle. However there were other famous hairstyles like the Shingle and the Earphone.
1926 ladies caring handbags
As jazz was getting more and more popular, poetry found its own way to make changes. Poets like T.S Eliot and E.E Cumings translated jazz into poetry by ignoring the conventional style, using references and mimicking jazz.
Eliot in 1923 by Lady Ottoline Morrell