Roaring 20s Party Theme

• Black & White
• Speakeasy Bar
• Gangsters/Al Capone/Bugsy Siegel
• Flapper DressesProhibition 'Bathtub Gin'
• The Great Gatsby
• Cotton Club/Ragtime Band
• Art Deco/Aviation
• Fedoras/English Driving Caps/Zoot Suits/Wing Tip Shoes
• Model T Fords/Tabloid Newspapers
• Mah Jongg/Oriental Lanterns/Victrolas
• Long Pearl Necklaces/Headbands/Feathers/Cloche Hats

Women/Girls: a broad, a bunny, a canary (well, one who could sing), a charity girl (one who was sexually promiscuous), a dame, a doll, cat's meow, cat's whiskers.

Jazz age jargon included: Joe College - better yet a Joe Yale - or a Joe Zilch , jazzbo, jellybean, blind date, upchuck, jazz babies, pos-a-loot-ly, and the real McCoy.

1920's Slang Dictionary - Download and print this document and then have it available during your party to help people get in the mood. Your guests will also have access to this document from their guest account on the Pre-Party site.

• Games included mah-jngg, ouija boards, and crossword puzzles
• Endurance races of all sorts gained popularity and included  Marathons and flagpole sitting
• Dance marathons - began in 1923 and really became the rage.
• Harry Houdini was the great escape of the 1920s.
• American Baseball!  and other sports were very popular
• Miss America contest began in Atlantic City in 1921. Margaret Gorman (16 years old) was the first winner with measurements of 30-25-32
• Dance crazes included the Charleston,  the Black Bottom, and the Shimmy.
  

'There's nothing surer; the rich get rich and the poor get poorer.' was considered the credo of the roaring 20s.  Harlem was hot! Chicago was hot!  (The Cotton Club was open to both whites and blacks and packed nightly.)  Jazz was hot! Bessie Smith sang the Blues. But most of the best-selling pop hits were sentimental ballads (I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time and I'm Just Wild About Harry), old-fashioned walzes (Three O'Clock in the Morning and Deep in My Heart) , and nonsense songs (Yes, We Have No Bananas and I Wish That I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate).  Fanny Brice sang Rose of Washington Square and Second Hand Rose in the Ziegfeld Follies and Vaudeville.  The  Grand Ole Opry was transmitted on the radio from Nashville in 1925.

People were going places and singing about them; Chicago; That Toddling Town,  Carolina in the Morning, Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, California Here I Come, Alabamy Bound, and  Puttin' on the Ritz.

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