Thursday, January 17, 2013

What was life like for women in the 20s?

I don't know too many people who were alive during the 20's, so after doing a little research, I will highlight 2 aspects of life for women during the 1920s:

  • SPORTS! Women were incredibly atheletic during the age. Playing tennis, golf, etc were all the rage during the 20s. The more money you had, the more down time you had to play the most popular sports that were fun and kept women fit.
  • The Flapper: The recently sited flapper was also popular. This woman was nothing like the woman we were accustomed to before the 1920's. She was a smoking, drinking, dancing, immodest, beautiful woman and she knew all of it. She liked to dance and party and was not ashamed to do either. Because the 1920's was an age of rebellion, we see that girls started going out in cars and disobeying parents due to the invention of the automobile. The Flapper was a rebellious women because once she saw her opportunity to take an inch (gaining the right to vote, she commenced taking a mile ( demanding all sorts of equality. )
The most well known quality of the 20's about women is the rebellious, dancing Flapper. Due to how unorthodox she was, often times she was not appreciated by all of society. But by comparison, she is much more conservative than modern dancers and singers.

Later guys,
Micaela 

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