The Importance Of Flappers In The 1920's

The 1920’s was a significant time for women at the time. There are many of different social changes as well as cultural changes that the United States experienced because of this so called “Flapper” movement. A Flapper was a fashionable young woman with the intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior. Flappers wore their hair short, dared to show their legs, drank, smoked, and cavorted with young men. The book “Flapper” by Joshua Zeitz includes a look at the Hollywood flapper starlets of the era whose executives helped propel the flappers' glamorous look. America’s Jazz age began in July 1918 in Montgomery, Alabama. There at the Montgomery country club, walked in Zelda Sayre who caught the eye of many men. That did not matter though, the only one who mattered was First Lieutenant Francis Scott Fitzgerald. “At seventeen, Zelda was “sophisticated for her age,” recalled on of her friends “but she still had the charm of an uninhibited, imaginative child”(13). Zelda Sayre was commonly …show more content…
It may not be identical but things change in their own way. The way people treated their appearance is completely different in today's time. You learn a lot from Joshua Zeitz in the book “Flapper”. It all started with a few women who wanted to be outcast from the stereotypical women look. This book lets you dive into a time that is much different. Back then, for women to be different, they just changed the way they dressed. As time went on, it seemed to me that the less clothes they wore became more acceptable to society. Now women get plastic surgery on their breast and have nose reductions done to change their look. There's nothing wrong with having this done but I feel as if we were given our genes by our parents and that's the way it should stay. Time goes on and the more advanced changes become because with newer technology, people go farther than just less clothes or doing as told