The Gibson Girl: The Flapper

In the 1920s there were two different styles among the younger generation of women. The Gibson Girls, and more commonly known, the Flapper. Before WWI, Gibson women had been the normal style, for an average American woman. According to PBS.org, the Gibson Girl “was a figment of the imagination and product of the pen of illustrator Charles Dana Gibson”(PBS.org); she was society’s ideal woman of the 1900s. Men expected women to sit around and wait for him to pursue a relationship with her, but she started to realize that there was more to life. As a result, women wanted to take an independent stand, and change their style by putting a new twist on it. This is when the Flapper emerged.
The Gibson Girl was to have her hair styled up on the top