USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Flappers of the 1920s were young women known for their energetic freedom, embracing a lifestyle viewed by many at the time as outrageous, immoral or downright dangerous. Now considered the first generation of independent American women, flappers pushed barriers in economic, political and sexual freedom for women.

Detailed explanation-2: -Colleen Moore, Clara Bow and Louise Brooks were the 3 most famous flappers in Hollywood in 1920’s. They inspired the change for generations of young women to come, of how women were perceived and how they could act.

Detailed explanation-3: -New Women, according to Barbara Molony, emerged in the late 1920s, out of the New Culture Movement and were viewed as the “educated, patriotic embodiment of a new gender order working to overcome the oppressions of the Confucian family system and traditional society".

Detailed explanation-4: -Several period sources claim the word ‘flapper’ originated from the American fashion among teenage girls for wearing unbuckled galoshes – because their galoshes flapped about in a carefree manner as they walked.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.