flapper culture
Jazz Age lifestyle
Flapper culture refers to the social phenomenon of the 1920s centered on young women who defied conventional expectations—cutting their hair short, wearing shorter skirts, smoking, drinking, and embracing jazz, dancing, and sexual freedom.
The term evokes the broader spirit of rebellion and modernization that characterized the Jazz Age: Her grandmother told stories of flapper culture and speakeasies.
- Roaring TwentiesProsperous 1920s era
- jazz musicImprovisational American genre
- jazz clubsBars with live improvisation
- beadsSmall pierced ornaments for stringing
- bob haircutJaw-length hairstyle, blunt ends
rouge · dating culture · rebellion · independence · speakeasies · wild parties · feathers · fringe · dropped waist · cocktail culture · shimmy · cloche · jazz age · suffrage · pearls · women's liberation · F. Scott Fitzgerald · bobbed
- 20th century cultureRoaring Twenties, Jazz Age, Great Depression, baby boom, counterculture
- Modern FranceCharles de Gaulle, National Assembly, French politics, National Front, far right
- Weimar Germanyhyperinflation, Treaty of Versailles, Hindenburg, Ebert, emergency decrees
- Taisho Japanmodern girl, Ginza, Tokyo Station, cafe culture, suffrage movement
flapper cultureVictorian morality
Rigid 1800s social standards
Victorianism · Victorian era · Puritanism · purity culture · coverture
flapper culturetemperance movement
Campaign against alcohol consumption