Flappers_Roaring_20s



__How did it get started?__ -The Gibson-Girl first broke through the barrier that had previously been molded for the young generation of the time. The new look was that the hair was worn on top of the head and with long strait skirts and a high collard shirt. The image of the “Gibson Girl”came along with being able to do sports such as golf, roller skating, and riding bikes. Gibson Girls didn’t date, instead they would wait to settle down with a man that had offered her marriage.

__War__ -After so many men were being trained to go into the army they no longer look forward to the thought of marriage. That left the women at home just waiting around for many years just to have the thought of marriage or anything that come along with that. Because almost a whole generation of young men had died, that left behind a generation of young women without a man to marry.

__Flappers Emerged__ -Flappers were the young women that did not want to wait around for a man in order to live life.

__ Fashion__ -The fashion style of the Flapper was very drastic looking. Women lost the corsets and under cloth that had been in use since before the Civil War in order to dance for fluently and be able to move freely. The clothing was modeled to imitate a boys clothing. Flappers would even roll cloth around their chest to flatten it. The skirts and hair were fashioned shorter. Make-up became a new thing to embrace.

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Rebellious__ -The Flappers attitudes was nothing that anyone would of expected to see out of the young ladies of that generation. Smoking was not so unusual but alcohol. This was during the Prohibition Era. Because the women starting their drinking habits so early in life, the image of the flapper was not a image that parents would want their daughters to have. Dances began to become the “it” thing to do but many considered the new types of jazz dances to be awkward. Since many people had access to cars due to the recent invention of the assembly line that became new place to get involved with others.

__The Respected Flapper__ Many women liked the idea of no longer wearing a corset of having to deal with their long hair. o they did lose the corsets and the hair but they did not gain the risky name that came with the new fashion.

__Depression Hits__ In the end of the 20’s the stock market fell in a huge slump and almost every business lost its money. So the girls that had previously been called flappers had to lose that image quick and get jobs and help bring in the money.