
During her show at the Folies Bergère theater in Paris in 1926, Joséphine Baker wears a kind of miniskirt made entirely of bananas . This is a stage costume only and not a real item of clothing. Moreover, the miniskirt remained a classic in the entertainment world during the interwar period . The Roaring Twenties saw the disappearance of the corset , to the great joy of sportswomen. The short skirt can make a comeback, feminine, through sport : the French Suzanne Lenglen abandons the usual tennis costume that she still wears on the occasion of the 1920 Summer Olympics for a dress signed Jean Patou in from 1921.