1920 The Roaring Twenties decade saw jazz and women's liberation in education, behavior, dress and makeup. Pancake makeup was invented in 1914, women got the vote in 1920, and as far as many conservative folk were concerned, the world fell apart. Women were dating without chaperones, necking unreservedly at parties, dancing lewdly and drinking hard liquor in nightclubs and dives. | | The Flapper era began with the look called "comme le garcon" (or, "like the boy"), straightening and shortening skirts and dresses, slimming figures and—most shocking of all—cutting the hair of the nation's fashionable young women. Short hair was a big deal: nice girls kept their hair long, as a metaphor for maidenhood.
The whole story is now a flashback about the time she worked there, and about a girl named Rita Lafferty. At first we hear about Rita’s looks; her reddish brown hair and her bucked teeth. The color of red, may tell us, in symbols, that she’s a girl who is going to make a sacrifice, and the brown color may tell us that she’s subdued and persevering. The bucked teeth could be a symbol too; the smile she gets of her lucky summer may not be that beautyful and happy after all. We get told that she lives in Fosket Street, Broadway with her mother, Mrs. Lafferty, who’s a bit of a witch.
The author stresses throughout the writing different films that had arose primarily because of the developments of the “New Woman” or in other words, the flapper. Some of the other main ideas would pertain to the image of women changing as well as the effects on class and consumerism. Ultimately, the purpose of this scholarly journal is to explain and argue that women film stars during the time of the 1920s were largely effected by the ever changing roles that women were taking in their lives. Sharot stressed image in the writing and how this greatly affected the way that women were portrayed on screen. After reading this composition, the intended audience seems to be those who are interested in film and understanding how it has developed over time, as well as those who are interested in gender studies and wish to gain a deeper understanding of how women and their roles evolved.
To make her argument more effective, she talks about a woman named Mary Finucane and her person experience with her daughter. She also uses statistics and similar studies on her topic. Using subtitles made the reading more understandable and easier to follow. This article and argument provides evidence on how young girls are acting older than they should and how they reduce this problem. Hane’s starts her article by talking about Mary Finucane and how she noticed a change in the way her daughter acted after she discovered Disney princesses.
Flappers have been worn by many young women, showing the freedom they have during the jazz age of the century. The jazz age included many speakeasy’s, and alcoholic drinks in the 1920’s which described the young women that had a “sexually liberated lifestyle”. The dresses were knee high length, very thin and women also wore their hair very short most lengths reached their ears, along with short hair and thin dresses was bright red lipstick and eyeshadow. The flappers shown a great amount of independence to the City of New York in the 1920’s during WWI to the Deprivation, not being able to have something due to the war. Many young women wore flappers as an act of freedom and independence during the 1920’s being able to vote around the time, women began attending colleges, more inventions and places to go were rising, prohibition has become an act creating speakeasy’s women started
In 1924, Zelda Fitzgerald is quoted as saying, "I like the jazz generation and I hope my daughter's generation will be jazzier." At this time, the "flapper" became the symbol of the age. Young women were leaving behind the respectability of their mothers and entering in to a new world of sexuality, shorter skirts and make-up. They were going to dance halls, movies; they were smoking and flaunting their bodies before everyone. Why had these young women turned their backs on everything that their mothers and grandmothers had believed in and built? Is it because they see they can make decisions and choices on their own and stand by the consciences?
* One famous flapper of the time was Joan Crawford. She started her career as a dancer on Broadway before moving to Hollywood to make a name for herself. She starred in films such as Paris (1926) and The Unknown (1927) in which she became famous for her flapper style. Many young girls admired and copied her style. In 1929, she married Douglas Fairbanks Jr, son of Douglas Fairbanks, which proved her important status in society.
After she parted with Balsan, she became involved with Arthur Chapel who financed her expansion for her lines of designs. From his help, he was able to provide her two boutiques in Brittany, Deauville. Her expansion had made such a great impact because she made women's apparel comfortable. Women in the 20th century were expected to dress in tight corsets, but she made these corsets more comfortable and breathable. Moreover, she even changed the style of dressing by designing jersey for outerwear.
(p. 80) Young women really loved the bobbed hairstyle. One fashion magazine predicted that the bobbed hairstyle would not last very long, but it did and they were forced to show more bobbed hairstyles in their magazine. The cosmetic industry made lots of money as well because of all of the products they were pushing to women. By 1929, some 2,500 different perfume brands were created along with 1,500 face creams. (p. 80).
They just let the air in and then it’s all perfectly natural.” “Then what will we do afterward?” “We’ll be fine afterward. Just like we were before.” “What makes you think so?” (Hemingway, 2011, para 45) Though it is hard to imagine now, when Hemingway published this story in 1927, women were just beginning to crawl out of the dark ages. The Women’s Suffrage Movement culminated in 1920 with the signing of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution which gave women the right to vote. Shortly after that, since winning the vote, women were running and being elected to public office and also becoming more educated. Prior to this, most women worked inside the home, raising children and being submissive to their husbands.