The Flapper Image
:Setting the Scenes
Immigrants began transforming the Unite States into an urban
nation. The new arrivals helped form a more complex urban culture. The Flapper
symbolized this revolution. The term describes a new type of young women
:How to describe Flappers
They are fun-loving, informal in manner, slim and boyish in
form, covered in silk and fur,and has red cheeks and lips. Of course, not all
young women become Flappers
:Women’s Changing Roles
Women stood at the center
of much of the social change in the 1920s. Both single and married, had been in
the work force for a long time. During the war, they raised in numbers and got
better and higher-paying jobs.
:The Flapper Image
The Flapper only represented a small number of American
women. Yet her image has an impact on fashion and behavior.
What happened is theta stylish young women began wearing dresses shorter than their mothers
did. The fashion page of the New York Times declared in July 1920 that “the
American women..has lifted her skirts beyond my modest limitations”. Between
1913 and 1928, the average of fabric used to make a woman’s outfit shrank from
19.5 yards to just 7 yards
Women also broke with the past in other ways.While most of
their mothers grow their hair long, they cut it short. Women’s manner changed
as well. Before the 1920s, “Proper” women rarely drank anything much stronger than wine, much less smoked
in public. To express their freedom many women were doing both. All those changes
shocked American society and emerged many parents.
