Luncheon Lecture: From Chic to Hat – 1920s Fashion That Became Big Politics
Red barracks, Fauske Folk Museum
Admission NOK 90,- / 70,- (seniors and students).
Speaker: Ronald Nystad-Rusaanes
The 1920s. A world war with all its cruelty was over. It was time for partying, fun, dancing, jazz, beach life, chic and hats. The American author F. Scott Fitzgerald set the very signature for "the roaring twenties" with his novel "The Great Gatsby". Here at home, Sigrid Undset and Knut Hamsun wrote about the new spirit of the times. In 1925, the new president of Turkey, Atatürk, banned the national hat, the fez. Boatloads of hats were shipped over from America and an entire nation was set on fire.
She "was what they called chic...she even walked with her hat back to find something". (Knut Hamsun "The Ring Ended" 1936.)
