... skirts may become even shorter, and that "not since the Bourbons has the woman of fashion been visible so far above the ankle (Only Yesterday Chapter I Page 2)." Experimenting with the "new woman" was an experiment that the older generation was not expecting and did not want, however, it is ... , and were the cause of many contentious arguments between mother and daughter. They were a heated topic of young girls in F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise. Prior to the twenties, such behavior of the new woman such as petting was never to be tolerated. Traditionally, a couple would " go...

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