Flappers

In the 1920s, a new woman was born. She was known as a "flapper." She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties.  This was the beginning of a revolution for women.

The term "flapper" first appeared in Great Britain after World War I. It was there used to describe young girls, still somewhat awkward in movement who had not yet entered womanhood. Fitzgerald described a flapper as "lovely, expensive, and about nineteen."  They were considered to be risk takers for going against the society's idea of a woman.They listened to the new jazz sound and danced provocatively at jazz clubs. They dated freely and treated sex as nothing. Some flappers even got into smoking cigarettes.

The idea of a flapper first began when women began to wear much more revealing clothing then what people in that time were used to.  There were very shocking changes in their hairstyles as well.  The new dances, during this time, known as the jazz age, required women to move freely, therefore trimming down and lightening their clothing. Flappers went for a new, boyish type look, contradictory to the look most women went for, which was the corsets, with long hair and gowns.