Flapper girls

Flapper girls

Before world war one young women lived a life in which they did not date, had long hair, were feminine but broke some gender boundaries as they enjoyed sport such as golf. 

After the war this changed, young women wanted to start enjoying life. They began the phase of the ‘flapper girls’.

Flapper girls wore less clothing to make movement easier, they could dance more to jazz music. The hem of women’s skirts started to rise, and women began to cut their hair into a ‘bob’. A popular haircut of the time has the ‘shingle’ this was a short cut with a curl on each side of the face that covered their ears. Women also started wearing makeup, such as rouge, powder, eyeliner and lipstick.

Along with their appearance, their attitude also started to change, they started enjoying sex, flaunting their sexuality and drinking. They generally started becoming more wreck less and started smoking. Smoking was only ever previously done by men, this shocked their parents.

The 1920’s also welcomed the jazz age. Flapper women loved going out dancing to jazz. Daisy is the perfect example of a 1920’s Flapper girl.