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In 1911, the controversy of the "Flapper" style dresses was first acknowledged. Teenagers find the "flapper" dress an excuse to wear excessive makeup, and drink as if nothing was wrong with it. The flapper age is now known as the age that woman start changing, as in cutting their hair short with makes it almost boyish, and taking risks. This is the decade that is going to change America as we know it. Both men and woman had broken society's way of structure so when the boys came back from World War 1 everything was different and is was very challenging for them to return to the home as they knew it. They were expecting for a humdrum life as they had known before they left for the war, but America woman were in chaos.

To be known as a flapper is to be known as a woman of drastic, shocking change in order to lighten the world as we know it. Women now have shorter trims in their dresses and have stopper wearing their corsets and pantaloons, which are replaced with "step-in's". The flappers dress was very short, and girls' also wore pieces of cloth tightly around their chests so they would look smaller. The flapper was making woman look more men like. The "Gibson Girl" who was very pleased with her long, beautiful, flowy hair was in total shock when it was all cut off into a new style called the bob, with in time was replaced with the even shorter hair styles such as the "shingle" or "Eton" cut. Usually only loose woman were ones to wear make-up but the new term flapper gave more woman to wear powder, eye-liner, and lipstick without be known as loose. The Flapper Attitude:

The flapper attitude was just in general risky. These young women took many risks, and also wanted to make a point to be different then the Gilmore girl. They are fast-living and they tried to make a statement, which involved them in smoking. They're parents were shocked.

The girls who were considered as flappers were heavy partiers, had bad drinking habits, and were shamed by their parents. Parents were outraged by the idea of their little girls turning boyish and trying to act like something that frowned upon in society as they knew it. These teenagers started using their own slang words like, "this is the bee's knees" and "the cat's meow". Flappers went to night jazz clubs, which they dance very provocatively, smoke cigarettes, and dated freely and they didn't care if it was indiscriminately.