The 1920s flapper exemplified changing attitudes of young women after World War I. The flapper embraced independence and prosperity rather than focusing on marriage and family like previous generations. Factors like women's suffrage, Prohibition, and working outside the home contributed to young women having more freedom and independence during this era. The flapper adopted styles like short skirts, bobbed hair, and makeup that represented this shift away from the Victorian ideals of previous generations towards a new modern identity.
7. Working Gals
“The outstanding characteristic of the flapper is not her
uniform but her independence and her will to be prosperous”.
– Samuel Crowther
8. Lipstick
Lois Long
“All we were saying was, 'Tomorrow we
may die, so let’s get drunk and make love’
”
– Lois Long (Lipstick)
15. Lighting the Freedom Torch
Speakeasies: Smoking, Drinking, & Dancing
“The real reason for the flapper's cigarette, the
inciting cause of her pocket flask, the motive
that lurks behind her petting parties, is her
assertion that now she has become man's
equal”
16. Do the Charelston
THE real reason for the flapper's cigarette, the inciting cause of her pocket flask, the
motive that lurks behind her petting parties, is her assertion that now she has become
man's equal-- and as such has a right to the sins he's been 20,000 years accumulating.
17. Treating
Sex, Romance, & Morality
THE real reason for the flapper's cigarette, the inciting cause of her pocket flask, the
motive that lurks behind her petting parties, is her assertion that now she has become
man's equal-- and as such has a right to the sins he's been 20,000 years accumulating.
