Flappers


Wikipedia - "Flappers were a 'new breed' of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms. Flappers had their origins in the liberal period of the Roaring Twenties, the social, political turbulence and increased transatlantic cultural exchange that followed the end of World War I, as well as the export of American jazz culture to Europe."
Wikipedia
'The Great Gatsby' Still Gets Flappers Wrong
Smithsonian - The History of the Flapper, Part 1: A Call for Freedom
YouTube: The Roaring 20s, flappers dancing the Charleston, The Fabulous Flappers

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