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FLAPPERS
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FLAPPERS  Flappers were young women in the 1920s - the Roaring Twenties - who challenged traditional norms of acceptable behaviour for women in America and Europe. Flappers wore short skirts, had bobbed hair, wore make-up, drank alcohol, had sex, smoked cigarettes, drove cars, rode bicycles, wore art deco jewellery, travelled around the world, danced to American jazz, and wore pants. They also liked pearl necklaces! The word, flapper, may derive from a young bird flapping its wings while learning to fly in that it described a girl turning into a woman. The word may also derive from an earlier use in northern England to mean a teenage girl or from an even older word meaning a . By 1920, however, the word referred to a new generation of young women; Dr Murray-Leslie observed "the social butterfly type … the frivolous, scantily-clad, jazzing flapper, irresponsible and undisciplined, to whom a dance, a new hat, or a man with a car, were of more importance than the fate of nations." Actresses, such as Clara Bow and Joan Crawford, built their careers on the flapper image. F Scott Fitzgerald’s book, The Great Gatsby, featured the character Daisy Buchanan as a flapper girl. The flapper movement, however, did not survive the 1930s following economic depression in America and Europe. Hard times always stops fun! In the 1920s, many suffragettes at the time viewed flappers as a frivolous and backward move in the fight for women’s rights but, later, many feminists have acknowledged their role in promoting women’s rights. The television series, Sex in the City, has even been likened to the flappers of the Roaring Twenties but in 1990s' New York. Can flappers be seen as feminists? Why have women had to fight hard for what men have had? Can a man be a feminist? Do you flap in a crisis, or are you calm? |
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ty for sharing. You learn something each and every day on this site  Hugs kisses V  Become a blog watcher sweet_vm
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Clara Bow was quite a woman!
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ty for sharing. You learn something each and every day on this site Hugs kisses V
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Their stand against corsets and even pantaloons was admirable.
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