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Rage Quit : Little Flappers Rage Quit : Little Flappers Flappers were a "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was Rage Quit : Little Flappers then considered acceptable behavior Rage Quit : Little Flappers. Flappers were Rage Quit : Little Flappers seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup Rage Quit Rage Quit : Little Flappers : Little Flappers, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms.[1] Flappers had their origins in the liberal period of the Roaring Twenties, the social, political turbulence and increased transatlantic cultural exchange that followed the end of World War I, as well as the export of American jazz culture to Europe.
The slang word flapper Rage Quit : Little Flappers, describing a young woman, is sometimes supposed to refer to a young bird flapping its wings while learning to fly Rage Quit : Little Flappers. However, it may derive from an earlier use in northern England to mean teenage girl, referring to one whose hair is not yet put up and whose plaited pigtail flapped on her back;[2] or from an older word meaning prostitute.[3]
The slang word "flap" is known to have been used for a young prostitute as early as 1631.[4] By the 1890s the word Rage Quit : Little Flappers "flapper" was emerging in England as popular slang both for a very Rage Quit : Little Flappers young Rage Quit : Little Flappers prostitute Rage Quit : Little Flappers,[5][6] and in a more general -- and less derogatory sense -- of any lively mid-teenage girl.[7] Rage Quit : Little Flappers Rage Quit : Little Flappers
The word appeared Rage Quit : Little Flappers in Rage Quit : Little Flappers print Rage Quit : Little Flappers in the United Kingdom as early as 1903 and United States 1904, when novelist Desmond Rage Quit : Little Flappers Coke Rage Quit : Little Flappers used it in his college story of Oxford life, Sandford of Merton: "There's a stunning flapper" Rage Quit : Little Flappers.[8] In 1907 English actor George Graves explained it to Americans as theatrical slang for acrobatic young female stage performers.[9]
By 1908, newspapers as serious as The Times used it Rage Quit : Little Flappers, although with careful explanation: "A 'flapper', we may explain, is a young lady who has not yet been promoted to long frocks and the wearing of her hair 'up'".[10] By November 1910 Rage Quit : Little Flappers, the word was popular enough for AE James to begin a series of stories in the London Magazine featuring the misadventures of a pretty fifteen-year-old girl and titled "Her Majesty the Flapper" Rage Quit : Little Flappers.[11] By 1911, a newspaper review indicates the mischievous and flirtatious 'flapper' Rage Quit : Little Flappers was an established stage-type.[12] Rage Quit : Little Flappers Rage Quit : Little Flappers
By 1920, the term had taken on the full meaning of the flapper generation style and attitudes. In his lecture that year on Britain's surplus of young women Rage Quit : Little Flappers caused by the loss of young men in war, Dr. R. Murray-Leslie criticized "the social butterfly type Rage Quit : Little Flappers... the frivolous, scantily-clad, jazzing flapper, irresponsible and undisciplined, to whom a dance Rage Quit : Little Flappers, a new hat, or a man with a car, were of more importance than the fate of nations".[19] Rage Quit : Little Flappers