flappers
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By Carolyn Cover and Ashley Diment
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Objective• The point of this
PowerPoint is to educate viewers about who these fascinating
women were, how they dressed, acted,
and about their modern ideas and
behavior.
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• In the nineteen twenties, a “new breed” of women
was born• Flappers were
women who smoked, drank, voted, danced, and flaunted their disdain for conventional behavior.
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They partied, broke the rules, and
rejected the traditional
roles of women
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Embracing all things modern, a Flapper’s wardrobe was a startling change of that from prior generations
1910 Dress
1920 dress (note the dropped waistline and shorter skirt length)
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• Hemlines rose, waistlines dropped and Cloche hats were the thing to have
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The flapper “bobbed” her hair,
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She wore shift dresses with startlingly short hemlines,
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• And she wore make up (which she might even apply in public!)
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Flappers were notorious for dancing provocatively
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• They frequented jazz clubs and also attended “petting parties”
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They also drove cars, which was considered shocking behavior for a woman.
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Like most other things, Flappers had new ideas about relationship standards.
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The flapper insisted on partnership in her marriage, if she even chose to marry.
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Though the bold ideas of these assertive young women are commonly
accepted today, they did not reflect the opinion of most people in their time.
They were more of a symbol of women’s independence.
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