can someone please tell me about the flappers from the 1920s?

Question

Yeah, i love the little waistless dresses all the girls used to wear and everyone keeps telling me it's the flappers hunni! and i don't no anything about flappers!?!?!?!

Answer 1

The term flapper in the 1920s referred to a "new breed" of young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered "decent" behavior. The flappers were seen as brash in their time for wearing makeup, drinking hard liquor and smoking tobacco.

Answer 2

flappers are the young women of the 1920s who attempted to transform the image of the American women. Before flappers, women were expected to wear your typical "victorian attire" with poofy dresses and tight corssets. Flappers "bobbed" their hair (which is a very short curly haircut much like Gwen Steffani has modeled as well as Christina Aguillera) wore dresses that exposed their thin legs, drank beer, danced to jazz, and smoked. Typically, these young ladies would party all night long and spend their money during the day. They were the modern version of a sorority girl. In the end, Flappers were trying to become free of the constraints of a patriarchical society, already began through the women's suffrage(women's right to vote).

Answer 3

They were young women who helped start one of the first sexual revolutions. Before then, women were still wearing tons of fabric and long skirts and had rules put upon them on how to behave. Flappers were like, "F*** that!" They cut their hair, smoked, drank, danced, and figured if boys were allowed to have sex, then so were they! Rather than wearing fitted dresses and corsets, their dresses had straight waistlines and short skirts, and they often wore looooong strands of necklaces.

Answer 4

Hay just wanted to let you know that 3/4 a book a week is 39 books a year. I don't know where you got 185, but maybe one of them could be a mathbook.

Answer 5

Well, don't be too eager to identify with them. They were mostly "bad girls," if you know what I mean. Girls who left home and took up with the sort of men who were either involved in something illegal (prohibition; alcohol was illegal) or were lawmen, whether undercover or not, etc. It was more like the girls who take up with crack dealers nowadays. Sure, there were plenty who just followed the fashions and went to the dance halls, but didn't slide down the tubes. But a pretty girl can be easily bought off with flattery and pretty clothes and . . . well, it's really a pretty sad story, isn't it?