flappers
Roaring Twenties women
Flappers were young women of the 1920s who defied conventional expectations—wearing short skirts and bobbed hair, drinking and smoking in public, dancing to jazz.
The term captured both their style and their spirit of rebellion against Victorian morality.
A flapper is also anything that flaps: a hinged part, a broad fin, or a young bird learning to fly.
Fitted dome-shaped hat
- bobbedCropped or nodded
- fringeOutermost edge or margin
- beadsSmall pierced ornaments for stringing
- sequinsSmall reflective fabric ornaments
headband · feathers · pearls · silk · chiffon · velvet · tassels · boa
Inhaling burning tobacco
- drinkingLiquid consumption act
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- independenceFreedom from external control
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
nonconformity · boldness · defiance · unchaperoned · scandal · risqué · liberation · unconventional
Southern Atlantic port city
Soundless motion picture
cloche
Fitted dome-shaped hat
sequins · headband · feathers · pearls · silk · chiffon · velvet · tassels · boa · stockings
smoking
Inhaling burning tobacco
- drinkingLiquid consumption act
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- independenceFreedom from external control
modernism · nonconformity · boldness · defiance · unchaperoned · scandal · risqué · liberation · unconventional · dating
Charleston
Southern Atlantic port city
kickline · dancehall · cabarets · revue · showgirl · chorus · ragtime
silent film
Soundless motion picture
- 1920s Musicjazz, ragtime, Charleston, Dixieland, blues
- 1920s AmericaCharles Lindbergh, Jazz Age, Spirit of St. Louis, transatlantic flight, Prohibition
- 20th century cultureRoaring Twenties, Jazz Age, Great Depression, baby boom, counterculture
- Early 1900sroaring twenties, jazz, speakeasy, prohibition, bootlegging
- retro fashionpoodle skirt, pencil skirt, petticoat, petticoats, bobby socks
- Roaring TwentiesCharleston, speakeasies, jazz age, Prohibition, bootleggers
flappersprudes
Overly modest people
traditionalists · moralists · teetotalers · church ladies · bluenoses
flappershousewives
Women who manage households
homemakers · farmwives · settlers · pioneer women · reformers
- flapper dressFringed 1920s women's garment
- flapper dressesStraight, loose 1920s gowns
- flapper style1920s women's fashion trend
- flapper era1920s cultural period
- flapper fashion1920s women's clothing style
- flapper valveHinged backflow preventer