The roaring twenties were exciting years for womens fashion. The iconic image is of the young flapper dancing the night away in a sparkling dress with fringes and tassels moving to the beat of the Jazz age. But for all women in the postwar years of the 1920s there was a new freedom in fashion as hemlines lifted and waistlines dropped. The simplified silhouette caused a boom in home dressmaking as women with basic sewing skills used tissue paper patterns to run up a new frock in the latest style