History Brief: 1920s Flappers
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2015
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A brief video explaining who the flappers were and what they were like.
Transcript:
Women were experiencing a new sense of freedom and independence in the 1920s. Who were these women? How did they express this newfound freedom?
Women had gained the right to vote in 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment seemed to usher in the new decade. A decade in which a new breed of liberated, modern woman became one of the most celebrated icons of the era. The new woman became known as a “flapper”.
Flappers were young women who abandoned the traditional Victorian-era values of their parents and grandparents. The word “flapper” came from the United Kingdom. It was a slang term for an impetuous teenage girl.
Flappers were known for a distinctive appearance and manner of dress. They cut their hair short, wearing a haircut known as a bobbed cut. They also wore straight, loose-fitting dresses with bare arms and low necklines. The dress length usually stopped just below the knee. At the time, such a short dress or skirt would have been considered risqué. This allowed the young women to perform new dance steps such as the Charleston or the Shimmy. When dancing, the length of their dresses would allow for an occasional glimpse of the bare knees, which would have been scandalous just a decade before.
Large amounts of jewelry was also part of the flapper costume. Several layers of beaded necklaces, pins, rings, and broaches were all common. Flappers typically wore large amounts of makeup, including lipstick, eye-liner, and blush. Makeup became increasingly more common throughout the decade as manufacturers continued to make a wider variety of cosmetics.
Stockings also went out of fashion, and many older women were shocked when they saw young flappers out in public with bare legs.
However, being a flapper was more than just a choice of clothing and jewelry, it was a way of life. The flappers engaged in many different types of behavior that, at the time, were not deemed as lady-like. They rode bicycles, they drove automobiles, they listened to jazz music, smoked cigarettes, drank alcohol, and danced.
There were many slang terms that became associated with the flapper culture. Terms such as “the bee’s knees”, “the cat’s pajamas”, and “that’s so Jake” were all known to mean “fantastic!”. “The big cheese” might be used to describe an important person, while “broad”, “dame”, or “doll” were all used to describe a woman.
Not everyone was a fan of flappers. There were many people who were outspoken against them, and felt that they were ruining the nation. Some critics felt that their style of dress was not only improper, but “near nakedness”. They were often criticized as being flippant, unintelligent, and reckless.
the flappers looked like they knew how to party
They did! 🤙
Yes!
Damn straight
Oh my god the knees how horrifying
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😂
Lol
Who is here from online classes
Im in schoool right know
Nah, I just like learning about the past. 👉
@@inspiredfandoms3462 ohh
Me lol
Me
It had to feel truly liberating to get out of those stifling corsets and tight long dresses
they still wore corsets it was basically the bra (the corset was truly gone in the early 1960s)
@@celestialgratia Girdle.
I would have so been a flapper
Me too!
Me too! 👈
yea me too if racism didn’t exist 🥲
Thank you 1920's ladies!
1:29
Look at dem knees
What an era to grow up in.
Just lovely!!!
I agree!!!!!!!!!!! I had a lot of health issues growing up, so I would have died young, but....WHAT A WAY TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lol I’m Asian so not as lovely but still cool
I'm thinking that was a super fun time to be alive. And if people back then we're shocked by their dress and style, then they would literally flip out today 😁
Well, the first war ended 1918, the 30s were the great depression, then the second war. You got just a short breather from a chain of disasters in the the 20s. I wouldn't be so sure if I'd rather have lived then.
not much of a difference between them and modern-day women. both equally vulgar.
Not much different from a lot of modern-day women. Future cat ladies who abandon tradition to be hoes.
Imagine if they knew that mini skirts would be popular, in the late 1960's and 1970's!
In other words. They were fantastic.
The strumpets of 20s.
Thanks for the information mister. More useful than Wikipedia
I love the 20s. Women were so beautiful. They paved the way of women's independence today.
I’d have to agree. But can we all agree that if there were some color it would’ve been all the more powerful
Women aren’t butiful
Barf
Great information. I am preparing for a roaring twenties party in January. This video helped. Thank you.
Chic Francisco Wow Im watching this video a whole year later to help my friend prepare for a twenties party in January lol😂
@@Thesoga0820 Same here
BRING BACK THE FLAPPERS, I DIG THOSE BABES
I KNOW THIS COMMENT IS SUPER OLD BUT SAME
Eh they can keep the bob cut imo
I love their style! I love flappers! They are so gorgeous!
Nice collection of photos. I am wondering where to find such photos.
so the way girls dress in 2017 to them would be naked am I right
YEP!
Or the mini skirts from the '60's...😉
YEP pretty much 👆
But they can dress in whatever they feel comfortable…
Just imagine 10 years from now.
I love 1920s
I enjoyed this thoroughly!
Dude thanks, this helped me alot with my project (:
You are welcome.
I was Called a Flapper,Many times before and Always wonder why...Now I do.
Thank you for this.
You're welcome.
this is a great vid love the Flappers
They should bring out the flapper styles again in the new 2020's
i really hope fashion does cycle through and bring the shimmery dresses and style of headbands back
@@cruton-xr9zd
Nah i want the badass black robes from the Renaissance again and most important open carry rapiers. Fucc yeah
History is cool. Young like to rebel against the ways they feel wronged. In 100 years, the stuff we consider outrageous today might be considered differently, as a silly old value.
This video is so jake.
The guy who made it, his name is Jake.
Wow! I saw outfits there that are very similar to what is worn today! Especially that image of the ladies on the ice blocks. Those shorts and skirt were as short back then as they are now! Very scandalous indeed! :D
i liked your video. it was helpful. Thanks! Thumbs up!
The 20's will forever be known as the age of the flapper...
Corona: Hold my beer.
Great info in the video. This music is tragic. Find something from the era a lot of it is in the public domain now.
good info xx
Funny, many of us would consider a flapper to be old-fashioned, but for her time she was quite liberated. (Cautionary note: the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression followed this period, though I don't blame the flappers for it.) More history: "Blondie" is a very old comic. Dagwood Bumstead was a young pleasure-seeking bachelor who came from a well-to-do family that made its fortune in the railroad business. Blondie was a flapper. When Dagwood married her, his family disinherited him, and he got work as an office manager for Julius C. Dithers & Co.
Top 3 events in 20s
3. Flappers
2. 2 year agter ww1
1. The Thompson smg was made ( Tommy or mafia gun )
thanks
great video, do you mind if I use it for a lesson? Thanks!
That's why it is here :-)
Name of song?
Hello, I am an English teacher from France and I wondered if it would it be possible to shorten it and use it for educational purposes only?
I would copy/paste the URL of your video of course to credit you and for my pupils to see the complete video if they want to.
Have a nice day!
C. Rollo
Yes. We post them for students to use.
Mfs back then went crazy upon seeing a lady’s knees lmao
I have a mock exam today so thank you so much
That`s it, put me down for three flappers !
Such an elegant age
Who the name of this beautiful flapper at 1:36?
Queendom1 bebe
It's actually modern-day photo.
Why is the soundtrack a song from 1902? 🤦♂️
Who’s here because your obsessed with flappers now but you did not give a crap when you learned it in school?
*GASP* i can see ankles!! HOW SCANDALOUS
song name?
The Entertainer.
Were flappers same as madams ?
I saw Louise Brooks in there❤
can yall this is 100 years ago now?
The original city girls
FLAPPERS FLAPPIN THEIR LIPS FLAPPY FLAP FLAP
Hey mate, that was pretty good. Audio quality is a little low but good still.
Yep. We really need to re-record this one.
I bought a coustum for Halloween at 1st grade and my sister said you don’t know the definition on flapper so I searched it up and-
Not very much has changed in young womens attitudes in those 90 years
What was the music used
The Entertainer by Scott Joplin
Thx
Was there any sort of male equivalent to a flapper?
things we need to bring back in 2020s
Thats so jake
yeah okay
OH NO!! THIER SHOWING THEIR KNEE CAPS... SOMEBODY CALL THE PRIEST😭🙏🏻
perfect 2020 costume
....interesting ... and when was the last time you heard anyone say "'Everything's Jake with the angels" ?
but why did this start?
@P e a c h y G u m gotcha. thanks!
It’s only natural that we went from the FLAPPER to W.A.P.! It only took 100 YEARS! We’re living in our LAST DAYS!
Flappers broke all cultural norms.
Divorce rates went up and the great depression hit soon after women were given the right to vote. Good times.
Congratulation
As they should
Thank god the grandparents of the flapper girls aren't alive to see what even young teens wear now. They would be horrified
Ankles
who’s here from 2021
Talks about flappers, never mentions Zelda Fitzgerald.
anyone from 2020?
Oe tisma
In the thumbnail its looks like there doing the hype
ooohhhh mama the bare knee
Im a flapper for hallowen
God bless the flappers
wasn't tomato another slang word for a woman?
Envoyé les reponse Sah
Them knees bro🤤
slayy these girls were kweeens
😁 👀 😉
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Women didn't want the right of men, that meant they had to be men, its so simple.
Those dresses are not even considered indecent by today's standards
whos here in 2021 in online school
Les terminal de J23 on est la
But the women of the world never went back to the pre-war conservativeness of earlier generations. My mother was born in 1908 and I have so many pictures of her with her bob haircut and scandalously short dresses! I never put the flapper era together with women getting the vote and thanks for making that connection. I always thought it was just a post-war phenonmenom but I'm sure getting the vote helped too. I wonder what effect prohibition had on creating the flapper in the US?
they are hot!
So I’m guessing ppl here r from school?
Ok so these girls where the disco are girls of there time.
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Here’s what caused the downfall of dress
What I’m getting from this is the girls got the new cool name “flapper” in the 20’s. Did the guys get a new nickname? Or were the just happy to get the gf who dressed a little hotter and liked to party?
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I'm here because of the Lumineers & Lady Gaga‼️
You forgot the most important part of the whole flapper experience -that the entire point was for them to be wearing makeup and jewelry and heels and generally dressed like goddesses while having their boobs strapped in and wearing dresses that hid their waistlines, preferably starved if they needed to be so that they didn't even have much by way of breast, thigh or waistline, and generally appear to be androgynous beings out to corrupt men and lead them away from churches, family and home to night clubs, bank robberies and houses of prostitution.
And, a good lot of the flappers were men in drag or underage girls and boys. There was even a video that used to be shown of a 13 year old girl stripping for the camera, talking about the lovers she's had.
Why does none of that ever get mentioned. It surely is a significant part of history and it is in books and on film.
I also agree, I don’t have some amazing reason for why, I just believe(being female myself) that not all girls are that “bold” (I’m not trying to offend anyone)
They didnt have someone to turn them into...nevermimd
How come he didn't mention how they danced with mem for money?
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