THE 1920S FLAPPER GIRL

The 1920s Flapper Girl

The 1920s Flapper Girl

"Flapper" in 1920's was the term applied to the "new generation" of young Western women who wore short skirts, bobbed hair, listened to jazz and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers were seen as reckless by his excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex casually, smoking, driving cars and other fun of social and sexual norms.

Flappers had their origins in period of liberalism, social and political turbulence and increased cultural transatlantic exchange that followed end of First World War and export of American jazz culture to Europe.

Some have suggested that concept of cheating as the particular life stage of young women has been imported to England from Germany, where it originated "as the sexual reaction against over-fed, women exercise less than monumental, and as the compromise between pedophilia and sexual normal. In Germany fins were called backfisch, "which means the fish that has been prepared for frying, but not yet cooked. Concept of 'backfisch "was known in England for 1880, but seems to have understood in social sense of the more modest rate compared with English trap, which was typically rebellious and challenging convention.

In 1912, London impresario John Tiller, definition of word in an interview with New York Times, described the "trap" as belonging to one age group the little older, the girl who has "just left" . Although word still largely understood as the reference to high-spirited teenagers little by little in Britain is being expanded to describe the woman rushing immature. increased use during First World War, perhaps because of visible appearance of young women in labor force to supply place of men absent: the Times article on problem of finding employment for women went on strike for return of male labor force is entitled "Future Trap" In 1918, word. Could also be used as the joke of the "lover of pleasure" older woman: the doctor Whatley, accused of adultery with wife of Sydney George Everitt Knowle Hall, Knowle, was asked in court why he had started the verse to it with words "There once was the dancer named Mary" .

In 1920, term has taken on full sense of style flapper and generation of attitudes. At its conference this year for Britain's surplus of young women due to loss of young men in war, Dr. R. Murray-Leslie criticized “sociable type ... frivolous, with very little clothing, jazzing trap, irresponsible and undisciplined, to whom the ball, the new hat, or the man with the car, is of more importance than fate of nations.”

First appearance of word and image in United States came from popular 1920 Frances Marion movie, Trap, starring Olive Thomas. Thomas starred in the similar role in 1917, but it was not until flap that term was used. In his final film, which was seen as image trap? Other actresses such as Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Colleen Moore and Joan Crawford shortly to build their careers in same image, achieving great ...