After the nineteenth amendment was passed in in the 1920’s allowing women to vote there began a new trend among women to emancipate themselves. This trend led to a boom in culture and resulted in a certain type of woman referred to as a flapper. The flapper had a certain style and aura about her that defined her in such a way. Their hair worn short, cut into a bob and their style of dress controversial. Many justify their actions as attempting to become more like the men of their time as the look they took on was partly masculine.
During this time, the Jazz Age, flappers went about clad in short skirts, bobbed hair and turned-down hose. The girls would often powder their knees and wear mass amounts of beads and bracelets. During this time, women's hair had always been worn long. The flapper however, wore it short, or bobbed. They used make-up (which she often applied in p
Flappers danced in bars and about attempting to make their way onto the Hollywood big screens by having their talents discovered. Turning from the old traditional dances of their elders, the flappers moved on to exciting, fast paced close dances like the Charleston and the Black Bottom. A notable flapper was Louise Brooks. Ms. Brooks was considered to be the ideal flapper of the time as she often appeared in ads, she modeled and she made films. Two of her most popular films were “Pandora’s Box” and “Diary of a Lost Girl.” Louise brooks started her career ion Cherryvale Kansas and worked her way through Denishawn Dance Company to Broadway’s George White’s Scandals and Ziegfield Follies, two notable production programs. She eventually filmed her movies with paramount pictures and became a flapper sex symbol of her time.
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