Flapper
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| The term '''flapper''' in the [[1920s]] referred to a "new breed" of young [[women]] who wore short skirts, [[bob cut|bobbed]] their hair, listened to [[jazz]] and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered "decent" behavior. The flappers were seen as brash in their time for wearing makeup, drinking [[hard liquor]], treating sex in a more casual manner, and smoking [[cigarette]]s, and otherwise flouting conventional [[social norm|social]] and [[sexual norm]]s. | The term '''flapper''' in the [[1920s]] referred to a "new breed" of young [[women]] who wore short skirts, [[bob cut|bobbed]] their hair, listened to [[jazz]] and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered "decent" behavior. The flappers were seen as brash in their time for wearing makeup, drinking [[hard liquor]], treating sex in a more casual manner, and smoking [[cigarette]]s, and otherwise flouting conventional [[social norm|social]] and [[sexual norm]]s. | ||
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| + | * [[Demimonde]] | ||
| + | * [[Roaring Twenties]] | ||
| + | * ''[[Thoroughly Modern Millie]]'' | ||
| + | * [[La Garçonne]] | ||
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The term flapper in the 1920s referred to a "new breed" of young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered "decent" behavior. The flappers were seen as brash in their time for wearing makeup, drinking hard liquor, treating sex in a more casual manner, and smoking cigarettes, and otherwise flouting conventional social and sexual norms.
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