Flappers!
Flappers refers to young women ages 15-25 who dressed in a young "hip" way They typically wore:
Flappers were the rebels of the 1920's they didn't go by what was expected . Flappers started a new fashion statement and a new behavior that women back then weren't really suppose to show in public. Women were suppose to be stay at home moms but in the 1920's come women decided they should have equal rights as the men, so they started working and then they started drinking in public and smoking cigarettes in public. When women got the right to vote, some women still chose not to because they didn't want others to judge them or they didn't think they should have the rights to vote or work. Some men would not allow their wife's to vote. When women started the flapper image there was a lot of controversy in the media. Flappers were frowned upon in the 1920's but in the economy we live in now it is what is expected.
- -low cut dresses that revealed the neck and the throat
- -hems just below the knee
- -silk stockings
- -waste-less dresses
- -"light weight" cloths (compared to earlier dresses eg. an earlier dress might use 20yd of fabric where as 1920's dresses only used 7yd's)
- -typically wore long strings of beads
- -bobbed hair cuts
- -most dyed their hair dark
- -tight hats
- -no corset
- Flappers usually wore excessive makeup, danced at clubs, smoked cigarettes, and drove automobiles
Flappers were the rebels of the 1920's they didn't go by what was expected . Flappers started a new fashion statement and a new behavior that women back then weren't really suppose to show in public. Women were suppose to be stay at home moms but in the 1920's come women decided they should have equal rights as the men, so they started working and then they started drinking in public and smoking cigarettes in public. When women got the right to vote, some women still chose not to because they didn't want others to judge them or they didn't think they should have the rights to vote or work. Some men would not allow their wife's to vote. When women started the flapper image there was a lot of controversy in the media. Flappers were frowned upon in the 1920's but in the economy we live in now it is what is expected.