This document summarizes the lifestyle and fashion of flappers in the 1920s. It describes how flappers smoked, drank, voted, danced provocatively and rejected traditional gender norms. They wore short dresses and bobbed hair, applied makeup in public, and drove cars. Flappers socialized at jazz clubs and parties, and had new progressive views on relationships and marriage. Though controversial at the time, flappers represented women gaining independence and modern ideals.

1. By Carolyn Cover and Ashley
Diment

2. O b je c t iv e
•Thepointof thisPowerPoint
istoeducateviewersabout
whothesefascinating
womenwere, howthey
dressed, acted, andabout
theirmodernideasand
behavior.

4. • In the nineteen
twenties, a “new
breed” of women
was born
• Flappers were
women who smoked,
drank, voted, danced,
and flaunted their
disdain for
conventional
behavior.

5. They partied,
broke the rules,
and rejected the
traditional roles
of women

7.  Embracing all things
modern, a Flapper’s
wardrobe was a
startling change of
that from prior
generations
1910 Dress
1920 dress (note the
dropped waistline
and shorter skirt
length)

8. • Hemlines rose,
waistlines dropped
and Cloche hats
were the thing to
have

9. The flapper “bobbed” her hair,

10. She wore shift dresses with startlingly short
hemlines,

11. • And she wore
make up (which
she might even
apply in public!)

13. Flappers were
notorious for
dancing
provocatively

14. • They frequented jazz clubs and also attended
“petting parties”

15.  They also drove
cars, which was
considered
shocking
behavior for a
woman.

16. Like most other
things, Flappers had
new ideas about
relationship
standards.

17.  The flapper insisted on partnership in her
marriage, if she even chose to marry.

18. Though the bold ideas of these
assertive young women are
commonly accepted today, they
did not reflect the opinion of
most people in their time.
They were more of a symbol of
women’s independence.