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If only 1920s editor could observe fashions today
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Not everybody got into the Roaring ’20s, defined as a loose time of rebellion among some segments of the population, defying tradition and exploring a modern age after World War I and before the 1929 stock market crash and Great Depression. Despite more prosperity, advances in technology and freedom for women, including the vote, during this period, there were those who criticized the trends. W.H. Craig, outspoken editor of the Gainesville Eagle, weekly predecessor of The Times, especially didn’t like changing women’s fashion, pointing out that it was getting progressively worse.