flapper style

Jazz age look

Flapper style refers to the fashion and aesthetic associated with young women of the 1920s who rejected conventional dress and behavior.

The look featured bobbed hair, dropped-waist dresses with raised hemlines, long strands of beads, and headbands or feathered accessories.

The style signaled liberation and modernity: She dressed in full flapper style for the Gatsby party.

Opposites
fashion era/movement

flapper styleVictorian fashion

Nineteenth-century British clothing style

Edwardian style · conservative dress · floor-length gown · ankle-length dress

gender expression in dress

flapper stylehourglass silhouette

Body shape with cinched middle

social conformity

flapper styleproper dress

Suitable clothing for context

Family

flap, flapping, flapper

Familiarity
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Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G