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Flappers were young, independent American women who became a cultural force in the 1920s as they challenged barriers to economic, political and sexual freedom.
Flappers were a subculture of young Western women prominent after the First World War and through the 1920s who wore short skirts (knee height was considered short during that period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for prevailing codes of decent behavior.
flapper, young woman known for wearing short dresses and bobbed hair and for embracing freedom from traditional societal constraints. Flappers are predominantly associated with the late 1910s and the ’20s in the United States.
The embodiment of that 1920s free spirit was the flapper, who was viewed disdainfully by an older generation as wild, boisterous and disgraceful. While this older generation was clucking its...
Flappers were young, fast-moving, fast-talking, reckless and unfazed by previous social conventions or taboos. They smoked cigarettes, drank alcohol, rode in and drove cars and kissed and...
Flappers receded from American life after the Great Depression pulled the plug on all the revelry. With the rise of feminism in the 1960s they enjoyed a bit of a revival, but were remembered ...
Perhaps the most familiar symbol of the “Roaring Twenties” is probably the flapper: a young woman with bobbed hair and short skirts who drank, smoked and said “unladylike” things, in addition...
In the 1920s, the flapper craze swept America— women bobbed their hair and danced to the Charleston in short dresses. This guide provides access to materials related to the “Flappers” in the Chronicling America digital collection of historic newspapers.
Flappers were the images of the free spirit of the Jazz Age. Women like Zelda Fitzgerald, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, and Colleen Moore helped establish their sex as equals. Flapper aesthetics started as taboo.
Flappers quintessentially represent the 1920s. This video is a basic overview of flappers, their origins, their lifestyle, and so on.