Flappers

Being a flapper in the 1920s wasn't about fashioned it was about rebbellion. Flappers didn't like how life was so they started to dance to jazz music and smoke. They also wore makeup and short dresses. There look became fashionable because of the lifestyle they lived in the 1920s. There short hair, that was pure rebellion against the older generation’s long hair. Flappers also danced in bars and on the streets drank and just did everything different then there parents did.Flappers also went to speakeasy. They also started to hangout with the gangsters.

How flappers became is because women were starting to be able to vote and now how jobs like other men and they weren't stuck at home cleaning all day so when they went out they wonted to have fun and dance and drink and smoke. Flappers were bold confident and very sexy. Women tried diets all around to lose weight because flappers clothes were very small. The older generation was very mad at there girls and people that did this.

One of a famous flapper was Clara Bow. She was sometimes called the "IT Girl".Many women liked Bow's look by drawing a bow shape on their lips, also putting black around there their eyes, and curling their hair onto their cheeks. Many people looked up to Clara Bow and thought of her as there idol. Despite the Flapper style many people felt threaten by it.Many states began to charge girls for wearing there skirts to high. Also many women got fired it they put there hair up. When the stock market crashed the flapper era was over girls started to wear there dresses lower and pretty much everything was back to normal.