Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, & the Women Who Made America Modern, written by Joshua Zeitz, takes place in the 1920’s, also known as the Flapper Girl era. During the early 1900’s, brand new ideas were coming about, and the economy was growing for the powerful people. “Much of this revolution in morals and manners has to do with the subtle but steady pull of economic and demographic forces” (Zeitz 29). People from all over the states were moving from suburbs to cities. The city life was made to look so enticing that people wouldn’t be able to refuse.
Once people arrived in the cities and try to settle down, however, they found that the city is not the life that they had envisioned. Drugs, alcohol, and gangs were on a rise. The streets were as dirty as the politicians, and women were meant to live at home with their parents, awaiting a courtship from a gentleman worthy enough to meet the standards of the girl’s family. However, women started leaving their parents in search of excitement in the city, only to dive into the dangerous life the cities held. …show more content…
The flapper was a sexually confident feminine ideal brought to life in the turn of the 1920’s. Zelda Sayre was a southern woman who stayed out late at dance halls and movie theatres with men, and most referred to her as “the prototype” of American Flapper. She eventually married Scott Fitzgerald, and Fitzgerald deemed Sayre his muse. Lois Long was a sassy New Yorker who grasped ideas for her column from the nightlife of the city. Coco Chanel was a designer. Her backstory, it seemed, was created by none other than herself. A few notable actresses such as Colleen Moore, Louise Brooks, and Clara Bow brought the flapper to the big screen but were short lived news as new eras and the idea of a less sexually confident woman became the new
Once people arrived in the cities and try to settle down, however, they found that the city is not the life that they had envisioned. Drugs, alcohol, and gangs were on a rise. The streets were as dirty as the politicians, and women were meant to live at home with their parents, awaiting a courtship from a gentleman worthy enough to meet the standards of the girl’s family. However, women started leaving their parents in search of excitement in the city, only to dive into the dangerous life the cities held. …show more content…
The flapper was a sexually confident feminine ideal brought to life in the turn of the 1920’s. Zelda Sayre was a southern woman who stayed out late at dance halls and movie theatres with men, and most referred to her as “the prototype” of American Flapper. She eventually married Scott Fitzgerald, and Fitzgerald deemed Sayre his muse. Lois Long was a sassy New Yorker who grasped ideas for her column from the nightlife of the city. Coco Chanel was a designer. Her backstory, it seemed, was created by none other than herself. A few notable actresses such as Colleen Moore, Louise Brooks, and Clara Bow brought the flapper to the big screen but were short lived news as new eras and the idea of a less sexually confident woman became the new