1920: The flapper, a revolutionary icon
1920: The flapper, a revolutionary icon
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The "New Woman" of the 1920s rejected the pieties (and often the politics) of the older generation, smoked and drank in public, celebrated the sexual revolution, and embraced consumer culture. The way for future iconic image, the flapper, was paved. She was a “new breed” of young Western woman wearing trousers, short skirts and bobbed hair, listening to jazz and flaunting disdain for what was considered to be an acceptable behaviour. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms.
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