Flappers

             After the nineteenth amendment was passed in in the 1920's allowing women to vote there began a new trend among women to emancipate themselves. This trend led to a boom in culture and resulted in a certain type of woman referred to as a flapper. The flapper had a certain style and aura about her that defined her in such a way. Their hair worn short, cut into a bob and their style of dress controversial. Many justify their actions as attempting to become more like the men of their time as the look they took on was partly masculine. .
             During this time, the Jazz Age, flappers went about clad in short skirts, bobbed hair and turned-down hose. The girls would often powder their knees and wear mass amounts of beads and bracelets. During this time, women's hair had always been worn long. The flapper however, wore it short, or bobbed. They used make-up (which she often applied in public). They would wear baggy dresses, with dropped waists, which often exposed their arms as well as their legs from the knees down. .
             Avoiding the stresses and conflicts of home life and tradition, a typical flapper was a young women who was often thought of as a rebel and maybe even a little brazen. Mostly, the flapper offended the older generation because she went against and disregarded the acceptable feminine behavior. The disregarding included things such as smoking and drinking cocktails in public, dressing suggestively and often walking about intoxicated, speaking and acting in a sexual way.
             Flappers danced in bars and about attempting to make their way onto the Hollywood big screens by having their talents discovered. Turning from the old traditional dances of their elders, the flappers moved on to exciting, fast paced close dances like the Charleston and the Black Bottom. A notable flapper was Louise Brooks. Ms. Brooks was considered to be the ideal flapper of the time as she often appeared in ads, she modeled and she made films.