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The infamous La Garconne [ Bachelor Girl ] novel by Victor Margueritte, with its beautiful and risque illustrations by Kees van Dongen, and its risque story line of its heroine – Monique, who dressed like a man, smoked cigarettes and has multiple sexual partners of both sexes, perhaps copper fastened the image of the 1920’s flapper. Popular Washington, D.C., hostess Mrs. John B. Henderson attempted to start a mass movement against what she considered vulgar fashions, appealing to prominent women’s clubs and colleges for help.

Caroline Reboux, the “Queen of the Milliners.” is generally credited for inventing the famous bell shaped Cloche hat. As early as 1921, she responded to the new Eton crop style haircut favored by many Parisian women, by creating a hat to fit snugly by placing a length of felt on a customer’s head and then cutting and folding it to shape. The style took off and became an iconic image of 1920’s fashion. By mid 1925 – with hair cropped close to the scalp – cloche hats almost resembled bathing caps. Flappers also received criticism from women’s rights activists like Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Lillian Symes, who felt flappers had gone too far in their embrace of licentiousness. End of the Flappers

From 1925, skirts were climbing steadily and ‘ the Flapper went out shopping for her crown‘. For the first time in history it was smart to be practical – and to wear clothes that demanded less care. Women’s magazines were filled with patterns based on the ‘new Paris styles’ and if a girl could sew, all she needed was the proper material and a large table, on which to lay out her new future dress. Dark kohl eye shadow seems to be the standard retro version applied now for the Flapper make-up look. But this style takes more from the Hollywood vamp look of the period. The average 1920s woman who dabbled with this ‘ dangerous’ new accessory, tended to go for a more understated look. White flawless skin was the aim, with a healthy rouge flush and just a dab of lip color. Both publicly claimed that Zelda was Fitzgerald’s inspiration for all his female characters, bringing her in as much demand for her insight as he was. She was soon writing articles about the “modern” flapper lifestyle. Lois Long If Fitzgerald was considered a chronicler of flappers, his wife Zelda Fitzgerald was considered the quintessential example of one. The Flapper defined the style of the 1920’s,with her flat tomboyish silhouettes and her Parisian inspired cloche is often misrepresented . The typical retro flapper dress is more of a retro 1960’s reproduction, replete with fringed beaded dress, cigarette holder and badly fitting bobbed wig and feather!

The press at the time credited Fitzgerald as the creator of the flapper because of his debut novel , “ This Side of Paradise,” though the book didn’t specifically mention flappers. Short history of the iconic 1920’s flapper.Where did she come from, the dresses, hats, hairstyles, make up looks and swimwear styles. 1920’s Flappers – Clifton Adams – National Geographic Where did the 1920’s Flapper come from? The popularity of movies exploded during the 1920s, though the screen versions of flappers were typically less permissive than the real-world versions. The first popular flapper movie was “Flaming Youth,” released in 1923 and starring Colleen Moore, who was soon Hollywood’s “go-to” actress for playing flappers onscreen. Flapper style regularly graced the covers of magazines like Vanity Fair and Life, drawn by artists like John Held and Gordon Conway. Flappers on Film

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Utah attempted to pass legislation on the length of women’s skirts. Virginia tried to ban any dress that revealed too much of a woman’s throat and Ohio tried to ban form-fitting outfits. The demand for loose clothing, offered fashion designers the chance to ‘liberate’ women’s dress. 1920’s Designer Fashion The health and fitness craze which swept the western world, had boarding school girls marching in line around the school grounds; actress Isadore Duncan, with her loose Greek inspired robes, encouraged normally respectable middle class women to leap about in ‘nature dances’ and tableau’s. Not everyone was a fan of women’s newfound sexual freedom and consumer ethos, and there was inevitably a public reaction against flappers.

Hair was shorter, skirt hems rose, and corsets were banished. Those early bright young things, in their fringe flapper dresses, comprised a mixture of classes for the first time. 1920’s Flapper Style The illustrations of John Held Jr perfectly capture the 1920’s flapper F. Scott Fitzgerald found his place in American literary history with “The Great Gatsby” in 1925, but he had already garnered a reputation before that as a spokesperson for the Jazz Age.Her work chronicled the life of a flapper and recounted her real-life adventures of drinking and dancing all night long. She typically wrote her column—first named “When Nights Are Bold” and “Tables For Two,” launched in 1925—directly after her nights out, typing into the wee hours. Flappers in Advertising No one knows how the word flapper entered American slang, but its usage first appeared just following World War I. Henry Ford’s mass production of cars brought down automobile prices, allowing the younger generation far more mobility than in earlier eras. Many people, a number of them young women, drove these cars into cities, which experienced a population boom. During World War I, women entered the workforce in large numbers, receiving higher wages that many working women were not inclined to give up during peacetime.

The emergence of the ubiquitous 1920’s flapper girl has several sources of origin. In England, the trauma experienced by the post war generation was reflected by the desire to break free from the social mores of class and wealth. For women, this manifested in a swift change in 1920’s dress and style. A collection of these stories was published that year under the title “Flappers and Philosophers,” cementing Fitzgerald as the flapper expert for the next decade. Zelda Fitzgerald New York women, on a hot summer day, swathed to the toes, frequently ripping their dresses whilst dashing for a bus.”A native of Montgomery, Alabama, Zelda was a stylish, free-spirited young woman who met Fitzgerald in 1918 while he was stationed there in the military. She was 17 at the time and—as the daughter of a prominent local judge—her hedonistic escapades scandalized her family.