The war hastened the march of fashion into the 1920s, and more liberated fashions. The Flapper era was named for the bright young things in short skirts, short hair and cloche hats, figures were flattened and boyish, the dresses waistless and easy. The young looked good in them and they expressed the spirit of the age. Ethnic influences and primitive art were popular in patterns and trims, and pleats, uneven hemlines and casually draped coats added to this style revolution.