Flappers was a term introduced during this time period. This term was used for a fashionable young woman who enjoyed herself and didn't stick to standard behavior. The women bobbed their hair, concealed their forehead, flattened their chest, hid their waist, dieted away their hips and kept their legs in plain sight (Yellis 44). The flappers were the ideal women in their time period and many young women wanted to be like them. Flappers would express another side of women; “the flapper was boyish and single… aesthetic ideal was motion, her characteristics were intensity, energy, volatility” (Yellis 44). They would dress in a boyish way to draw attention because they wanted to be different. Women wanted the attention of people, especially men,
