Fashion was very important in the 1920's because it showed a lot of the person, it showed is social class, origin and occupation. Flappers were the kind of women who didn't follow the rules.
During the decade of flappers women received much more sexual freedom, they married only for the sexual aspect, and family member decreased a lot during this period. If something was wrong with the marriage or they were having problems, the women will get a divorce; they thought it was the best solution for an unhappy marriage.
The flapper offered women more security to themselves, now they started to work and somehow they learned about freedom and equality. It was very hard to become part of this, because as upper class women, you had to be thin, white, slender and young.
It only lasted around 3 years.
At the end of the 1910's, when men started going to World War 1, women had to take their jobs. Because they worked at fabrics, and it was not a place for long hair, women started cutting their hair really short and this was known as "bobbed hair"; it was said like this, because they to bob their hair (cut it). The boyish bobbed hair transforms into the shingle cut, flat and close to the head, with a center or side part. A single curl at each ear is pulled forward into the face. This hairstyle was extremely popular and it was started by Irene Castle, while she was on national television. It was sort of a rebellion with the society.
For a woman to bob her hair, was not well seen because it had been thought that a girl's hair was like her glory. Many elderly women disapproved this look, and it was until the beginning of the 1930's when they started to accept it. Girls who bobbed their hair were taking a big step, for most of the ladies this was their first time that they got their hair cut. Some ladies, who did not have the courage to cut it, pull their hair to the back of their neck or wear a hair band. By the ...