![]() ![]() Hair cut in a shingle bob cut with bangs or an eton crop (a modern equivalent would be a pixie cut).Colossal sparkly chandelier-style earrings.2-3 inch Mary Jane heels with button fastenings in black, gold, silver, or nude.Highly visible, sheer, light-colored silk/rayon stockings fastened just above the knee with lace-adorned garters.For night: Fur, velvet, quilted satin, shimmering/shiny textured silk/rayon.Straight, up-and-down, knee-length or above, shift dresses, with no cleavage showing.In summary, flappers defied the previous norms by wearing short(er) skirts, makeup, and having short hair. ![]() ![]() They couldn't do it, and they very disrespectfully said so." Fashion As Frederick Lewis Allen says in Only Yesterday, "(Women) found themselves expected to settle down into the humdrum routine of American life as if nothing had happened, to accept the moral dicta of elders who seemed to them still to be living in a Pollyanna land of rosy ideals which the war had killed for them. Improvements in birth control also contributed to the growing freedoms of women. ![]() Women's freedoms were further expanded with the passage of the 19th Amendment, giving them the right to vote. Due to large numbers of men fighting in WWI, a significant number of women entered the workforce, exposing them to freedoms that many wanted to keep. Flappers came out of the increasing freedoms throughout the 1910s. ![]()
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