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In Real Life Long's The Flapper

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After the release of “The Flapper” the character, Ginger and her mysterious behavior became a hit and thus the age of the flapper was born. Movie star and fashion icons who became committed to this way of life started popping up everywhere. A short time before the twenties Zelda Fitzgerald was seen as an “It” girl. She was from a town in Alabama, her father was part of the supreme court and her family was well known. That being said she would often find ways to push people's buttons, whether that being wearing a tight nude bathing suit just to trick people into thinking she swam naked or just generally be unconventional. She also believed that ‘women should be more than just daughters and wives,’ which was a crazy idea in her time. Zelda enjoyed …show more content…

In real life Long was even seen as the embodiment of the flapper, she was brash, she drank and smoked, and she had fully control over every aspect of her life from finances to who she slept with (Jesse, 4 Famous Flappers of the 1920s, 1920s fashion & Music ) . According to historian Joshua Zeitz, author of Flapper: Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern, Long’s exploits often found their way to the office: “She would come into the office at four in the morning, usually inebriated, still in an evening dress and she would, having forgotten the key to her cubicle, she would normally prop herself up on a chair and try to, you know, in stocking feet, jump over the cubicle usually in a dress that was too immodest for Harold Ross’ [the founder of the New Yorker] liking. She was in every sense of the word, both in public and private, the embodiment of the 1920s flapper” (Lib Tietjen, Let's Get Drunk and Make Love: Lois Long and the Speakeasy X) …show more content…

Chanel was a french fashion designer who most often consider the creator of the “flapper look”. She took inspiration from men clothing and she strived for the same thing they did. Chanel's goal was to make clothing for women comfortable while stilling being fashionable, she freed women from corsets and heavy dressed and invented the loose-fitting little black dress (Spivack, The History of the Flapper, Part 5: Who Was Behind the Fashion?) . Whether women were movie stars, socialites, journalists, or fashion designers they held important roles in societies and made leaps and bounds for women during the jazz

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Babe Ruth or George Herman was a professional baseball player who was seen as one of the greatest sport heroes in American culture whose career in MLB spanned 22 seasons and achieved his greatest fame as outfielder for the New York Yankees. Babe Ruth is tied to the 1920s because of people having passion for sports Babe Ruth is most recognized for his many record breaking accomplishments and for being a role model for any sport fanatic in the 1920s A flappers were was a fashionable young woman who would wear cloche hat, bobbed hair, dramatic makeup, no corset, dropped waist dress below the knee, and were flat chested. The flappers were tied to the 1920s because it was the fashion in that time and also because it was changing role of woman

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In the beginning of the book, Zelda Sayre is introduced to an example of what the bolder type of women was. She would later be known as the first american flapper, but in the earlier years she just was just one of

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With the right to vote, consumer based culture, leisure time, and modernism, women who followed these new practices and ideals created the flapper image of the roaring twenties we know today. In Fitzgerald’s story he describes the girls almost wanting to be flappers to me it seems as if in almost all of Fitzgerald’s books he has a girl who is the opposite of what her society wants her to be like and is leaning towards the lifestyle of a flapper girl it's like they are all the same person or have many of the same characteristic in “ The Great Gatsby” which is one of my favorite books, Jordan Baker is a golfer who represents what the new woman is which is cynical,boyish, and self centered. She kinda reminds me of how Beatrice and Marjorie are at the end. They had almost every iconic element of a flapper besides the bobbed hair,but they loved to party at the end , they dance to jazz music, was cut-in every few feet on the dance floor, was always wearing the latest fashions, and was all over casual dating. With this new flashy and flirtatious attitude and charm that young women

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(Sauro 1) Flappers were typically young, urban, middle-classed women. Clara Bow was one of the women who popularized the flapper look, and acts. Clara bow also cultivated the devil-may-care attitude and fashion. Bow was referred to as the scarlet that had “it.”

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In actuality, Zelda bore a resemblance to Rosalind because Zelda too was independent, did what she yearned to do and expressed her viewpoints without inhibitions or restrictions (Solomon). For her, women such as Rosalind must be admired because of their courage, their recklessness and spend-thriftiness. The first quarter of the 20th century saw several young women in America as “flappers” because it was a craze adapted by all. F. Scott Fitzgerald said that the character of Rosalind Connage resembled his own wife and thus “the original American flapper” was in reality base on Zelda herself

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This dress allows women to show a little skin. Ever since Chanel 's design and creation of the little black dress womens fashion was forever changed. Chanel not only made the little black dress she also designed the jacket and skirt. Without her classic jacket with a matching skirt women would probably still be wearing dresses everyday. Her bravery, passion,

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Flappers were women in the 1920’s who were young, and went against social standards.

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Peggy J. Whitley notes that "the flapper's look was an androgynous one, with bobbed hair, shapeless dresses, and makeup that emphasized the eyes and mouth rather than the cheeks and nose" (Whitley). This description matches Daisy's appearance, as she is often described as having short hair and wearing fashionable clothing. This androgyny reflects the new freedom and ambiguity in gender

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The image of the flapper was used in magazines and advertising and lead to the influence of mass consumer culture and media. This new image of the flapper “encouraged both the consumption of new products and new patterns of consumption and provided women with accessible routes to engage with modernity.” Since women started to gain rights such as voting and opportunity to gain jobs, women started to gain a sense of freedom and started to mix in with the new modern world they were entering in. As stated before, technology started to rise, and companies wanted to sell these new products. So, companies started to aim towards women in

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“They moved with a fast crowd, all of them young and rich and wild, but she came out with an absolutely perfect reputation.” (Fitzgerald) Daisy's behavior reflects the contradictions and complexities of women's roles during the era. While she enjoys the privileges of wealth and social status, she is also trapped in a loveless marriage and lacks power over her own life. “Despite the heady freedoms embodied by the flapper, real liberation and equality for women remained elusive in the 1920s, and it would be left to later generations of women to fully benefit from the social changes the decade set in motion.” (Pruitt) Her relationship with Gatsby, driven by nostalgia and longing for rewriting the past, underscores the disillusionment and discontentment prevalent among many Americans during the

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Young women had helped during the war, taking jobs that the men out fighting left behind. This gave them new freedoms and they didn't want to give those up when the men came back, in a form of rebelling they wore shorter dresses, bobbed hair, and drank and smoked in public. The older generation, defined “Gibson girls” did not take to keen to this and saw them as less than average to say the least. “The embodiment of the 1920’s free spirit was the flapper, who was viewed disdainfully by older generations as wild, boisterous, and disgraceful. ”(The History Of the Flapper Part 1: The Call For Freedom)

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5. A: Whilst each author has their own view of Chanel, each source discusses the importance of her style in modernising and liberating women 's fashion. Ingrid Sischy for example, maintains that Chanel was far beyond her time and that her part as a revolutionary fashion designer played a key role in the liberation of women. Catherine Driscoll also asserts that Chanel was a key figure in the modernist movement of fashion, whilst Linda Simon calls her an entrepreneur that encouraged women to move into the workplace and rebelled against the gender expectations of the earlier 20th Century. Justine Picardie is not quite so fervent and awestruck, but still retains that Chanel had no doubt climbed to wordly acclaim in an age steeped in sexism.

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