THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Wearing short skirts and having long hair.
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Having short hair and smoking & drinking.
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Having short hair and never wearing makeup.
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Not being fashionable and never dancing.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Young girls with their hair shaved short, heavy makeup and donning bolder dresses. They rode bikes and drove cars, chain-smoked cigarettes, drank like men, flirted outrageously, and plunged into wild jazz dances like charleston and black bottom.
Detailed explanation-2: -Flappers smoked in public, drank alcohol, danced at jazz clubs and practiced sexual freedom that shocked the Victorian morality of their parents.
Detailed explanation-3: -Instead of reverting to the modesty of the Victorian era, women ditched their corsets and cut their hair short and so the flapper was born. Rebellious and determined, flappers flirted, danced, smoked, and frequented speakeasies.
Detailed explanation-4: -Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms. They challenged the previously accepted mores of society in every regard.
Detailed explanation-5: -Flappers usually wore their hair short. The bob haircut was popular among young women and would usually feature bangs. The Eton crop was another popular hairstyle that was even shorter than the bob cut.