Skip to content. Home About Contact Policies. Just for fun, two more tennis players of the s, Minnie Glass and Ray Yingling: Comments: Posted by becca fritschle : What excellent theories! Saturday, February 6th PM. Sunday, February 7th AM. Sunday, February 7th PM. Share this: Email Twitter Facebook Reddit. Like this: Like Loading February 21, at am. Is it okay if i use tid bits of you article for my history report school???
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Email required Address never made public. Name required. Search Search for:. Follow fuzzylizzie. One of the great pleasures about Costume Society of America symposiums is that there are always museum exhibition tie-ins.
The Kentucky Museum has a nice collection of Carrie's designs and so we were treated to not only the exhibition, but also talks from the curator, the exhibition planner, and the conservator. I'm putting the finishing touches on my presentation for the Southeastern Region Costume Society of America Symposium next week. She smoked, drank, and swore, which had been male prerogatives.
She was widely assumed to be sexually aggressive and promiscuous. Some clothing historians speculate that young women were, in a sense, trying to replace the young men who never came home from the war. Flappers certainly seemed to lay claim to male freedom. At the time, many people found all of this appalling. The Daily Times talked a lot about flappers — most of the time, disparagingly. The paper recounts a story from Indianapolis, expressing surprise when a flapper demonstrated that she had a kind heart.
If she should walk the streets of Jerusalem with her face spotted red and white, the people would cry, as they did for the leper — unclean! Your email address will not be published. Blog Home » Blog » What was a flapper, anyway? What was a flapper, anyway? December 31st, The Geneva Daily Times of the early s suggested a few possible origins for the term flapper. Why is a flapper? Well, why is she called a flapper? When asked recently why he called his.
In the spring time, summer time, and fall there does not seem much reason for giving them this cognomen. Flappers Resembled Ducklings.
Singer and dancer Josephine Baker in a very flapper-ish ensemble. Wikipedia, however, suggests that these theories were actually mistaken. According to the article on Wikipedia, flapper was actually a slang word in Englandfor prostitute that dates to the s. Hair was long. The Gibson girl was the idealized image of beauty. And the Victorian attitudes toward dress and etiquette created a strict moral climate.
Then the s hit and things changed rapidly. The 19th Amendment passed in giving women the right to vote. Women began attending college. World War I was over and men wanted their jobs back.
Prohibition was underway with the passing of the 18th Amendment in and speakeasies were plentiful if you knew where to look. Motion pictures got sound, color and talking sequences. Every day, more women got behind the wheels of cars. And prosperity abounded. All these factors—freedoms experienced from working outside the home, a push for equal rights, greater mobility, technological innovation and disposable income—exposed people to new places, ideas and ways of living.
Particularly for women, personal fulfillment and independence became priorities—a more modern, carefree spirit where anything seemed possible. The embodiment of that s free spirit was the flapper, who was viewed disdainfully by an older generation as wild, boisterous and disgraceful. While this older generation was clucking its tongue, the younger one was busy reinventing itself, and creating the flapper lifestyle we now know today. It was an age when, in , year-old Mildred Unger danced the Charleston on the wing of an airplane in the air.
What drove that carefree recklessness? For the most authentic descriptions that not only define the flapper aesthetic, but also describe the lifestyle, we turn to flappers themselves.
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