Jazz Age-flappers Flashcards
Who named the 1920s the jazz age
The American writer F.Scott Fitzgerald
Why did the jazz age happen
-WW1 had been so bad that people felt lucky to survived it
-young people threw away all the restrictions in manners,clothes and morals.
What was “it”
It was nothing more than sex appeal. (Something women were not supposed to exhibit.)
What was any girl who possessed “it”
They were called a flapper
Flappers who liked dancing and syncopated music was called
Jazz babies
What did outrageous flappers
They did what they liked. They specialised in scandal
What does a flapper look like
Bobbed hair,makeup,short skirts,powdered knees,rolled down hose
Flappers were
Young and forgot traditions of being home wives
What was the outrage of flappers
Flappers drank,smoked and drove cars. They also chatted up men and asked men out on dates. People thought they were not respectable
What were flappers considered
Loose moraled, modern women of the 1920s
