Mens clothing was also undergoing drastic changes in the 1920s. Sports type clothing was very popular,particularly tweed jackets, which were sometimes belted round the waist, and were worn with "nickers" which were half length pants ending below the knee, and these were worn with long wool stockings. These bucket hats for men continued to be popular into the 1950s and even later. Golfers particularly took to this style of pants. Mens hats were typically straw boaters or felt hats with large brims. Flapper hats and clothing along with this style for men are great for Halloween costumes.

The twenties period saw great changes in lifestyle, particularly for women. Women strode forward from the Edwardian period to embrace life much more fully and to take on many types of jobs and participate in sports which had been denied to them in earlier years.

At this time the western world was trying to recover from the devastating toll of World War 1. Millions of people had died and life was altered completely for everyone. The roaring twenties period was one of rejuvenation, when post war survivors were creating new lives for themselves, with new hope for the time ahead. Mens and womens clothes changed dramatically with the new ideas of the time.