Flappers: An Overview

[@sharonh2991]

I’ve always said that the 1920’s was the beginning of the cultural revolution. It was interrupted by the depression and World War II then resumed in the 1960s.

[@TheMan40262]

hopefully the 60s revolution will die here shortly

[@keithwaynejones]

i agree except i think it resumed in the 50s with rock n roll

[@TM-hl7ir]

I always thought that too

[@Paulftate]

Yeah, you right about that they gave the woman the right to vote and they voted in prohibition how did that work out ... a lot of biased propaganda in this video

[@Paulftate]

​@@keithwaynejonesif you havn't forgotten there was a war going on in the 40s ... then there was this thing about rebuilding after the war

[@catlover34fl]

This is especially enjoyable to watch and hear because you included the authentic music sounds of the 1920s.

[@custodialmark]

as a new nursing assistant in Mesa, Az. 1982, i luv history and got great stories from some residents in care center. Memorable was a few proclaimed, ' Flappers' so only few story or general memory that brot a smile to their faces when asked about it, life back then...

[@CheeseBae]

I heard they were called "flappers" because of the way they danced. When they swung their arms around people thought they were flapping their arms like a bird.

[@warspartan420]

nah there just old time whores

[@kangel1561]

Excellent representation of the Flappers. People normally gloss over the cultural atmosphere that existed during that time. And most impressive is that you explained why they came to an abrupt halt because of the Great Depression. I'd love to see more of your 1920s slang... like it's the bee's knees, hay burner and hotsy totsy.

[@j.p.samsell7988]

My great Aunt Irma was a Flapper Girl in 1925 right out of high school, my grandmother was still too young for that lifestyle. But their photos are really cool!.

[@MartinThomas-m1g]

Please tell us what was "Great" about Aunt Irma🙄

[@christianfelan8732]

Great Job! I will be using this today as I discuss the culture of the 1920's with my students.

[@DAN-lo5db]

the majority of women then were not flappers, because it was considered a whore would wear shorter skirts, makeup and shorter hair and he said it was mostly society women or in big cities mostly, or college women, and also employers did not hire women if they wore makeup, shorter hair and knee length dresses and skirts

[@DeathToTyrants24]

Ask permission first. Jew.

[@georgewolf6422]

I love the twenties and their music. The girls were the sweetest. The era was alive. It is 2023 and everything is dead and boring.

[@mistergrandpasbakery9941]

Second time watching. The narration is great and the composition of the script is beyond belief!

[@phantomstrider]

Flappers seem like good fun! No one's going to tell them how to behave. Even as early as the 1920's

[@Dryice777]

Hi strider

[@phantomstrider]

@@Dryice777 Howdy Dryce!

[@Dryice777]

@@phantomstrider wow I wasn’t expecting you to actually respond I love your videos

[@inconceivabledark]

Their dress sence was impeccable. And the little beaded scull caps look amazing

[@aloysiusdevanderabercrombi470]

* sense *skull

[@gerry-p9x]

Aunt was a flapper in late teens she was a sea,stress and sewed own dresses FF TO 1960S. her grandkids needed costumes so she pulled out old dresses remodded them to their size with beads fringe. And sequins....awesum

[@bevygaines]

@@gerry-p9xI would love to see those Flapper dresses!❤

[@jhonwask]

I love your Flapper videos. By the way, I have that 78 record you played throughout.

[@RatCityprincess]

The term Flapper didn't originate in Europe. I use to work for a few elderly ladies. They all said that the term came from how they wore their galoshes back in the 20s. They couldn't walk around in their nice shoes when it was raining and muddy. So they'd wear their boots and leave the top 2 snaps undone. The boots made a flap flap flap sound when walking. They left the top snaps undone so they could change into their fancy shoes quickly.

[@margueriteyork7042]

i heard that too

[@Thurston86]

Great video but the music is a bit too loud and it’s difficult to hear your narration in some sections. Otherwise, 👍.

[@trevorstevens2889]

According to Vogue magazine, the word Flapper was attached to the young women of the twenties when they were still young girls. There was a trend for their mothers to hold the girl's long hair back from their faces with huge ribbons tied at the top of their head in a flattened bow which huge down the sides of their heads like big flaps. You can easily see this fashion if you find pictures of young girls from around 1910-1920.

[@warspartan420]

nah video summed it up better

[@riptiderobin1676]

I'd heard it was because of how their clothes/jewelry flapped when they moved/danced. Probably a bit of everything.

[@juliaheger8127]

"The term flapper originated in Great Britain, where there was a short fad among young women to wear rubber galoshes (an overshoe worn in the rain or snow) left open to flap when they walked. The name stuck, and throughout the United States and Europe flapper was the name given to liberated young women."

[@zoofeather]

Concise and entertaining, while honest in perspective

[@michellecranford9238]

Glad I found your channel..I thought flapper was the sound of their unlaced boots..but I am no expert..great work here..

[@jgas2235]

This is excellent! The relation between music coming out of black communities, being associated with overt sexualization of the woman and then crossing over into the white (elite) mainstream is a common phenomenom in the whole American continent. The very same thign happened with samba and the birth of bossa nvova in Brazil, where I come from. Tks again!

[@pjhaze]

If only they were able to profit off of the contributions they made to society. In music and art alone! Good to talk about it so it doesn’t repeat itself.

[@rolandoe.diazolivom.d.4777]

Bossa Nova - as opposed to samba - was white from its very origin. It was the creation of cultured, white Brazilian composers, way back in 1958.

[@jaspermcminnis5538]

I wish I could explain to you where it actually comes from and what to read. But I can't.

[@_jms430]

I love this video, good job!

[@MarcusZepeda]

women in the Victorian and Edwardian era never wore a tight fitting restricting corset. The vast majority of women never did this- in fact, The way most corsets were worn historically was extremely comfortable. It would have had to be, to be in fashion for working women for so long. Present corset's as being by their very nature. Tight fitting restricting Crushing, squeezing or impractical to any real movement. Ignore the long history of women doing normal work in them. There is fashion historians who wears a historically accurate corset on a daily basis for an example of what happens when someone wears a historically accurate corset undergarment (spoiler alert. Nothing happens) they can do literally everything as a person can do corset-less.) I'm sorry your research was misinforming you. This misinformation and myth is pretty Prevalent, and I understand how this mistake could get made. But the verdict among fashion historians is absolutely clear: The corset was just an undergarment, and not at all the torture device rumor now has it that it was.

[@elizabethpate9486]

I don't understand how people can believe whole heartedly that women would have continues to wear corsets for the better part of nearly 300 YEARS( in one format or another), if they had been such "torturous" implements of female oppression! We couldn't have preformed all of the many physically taxing duties that were required of women, quite literally, just to make life livable EVERY SINGLE DAY! Much of these daily tasks were quite a bit more physically taxing than anything most of us are used to today, I must add! Thank you for being so educated on the topic! It is refeshing!🫶🏻🩱🧣

[@snowwhite19376]

i love the flapper hairstyles

[@btetschner]

A+ video! Very helpful for understanding flappers and their origin.

[@-mey5392]

I did enjoy your video, thanks for sharing! So interesting topic!

[@ConsistentSniper]

Just decided to go ahead and start at your first video in order to work my way through your cataloger.

[@The1920sChannel]

Thanks! But it's a pretty rough start to be honest lol

[@TheStuckBR]

Your job is all, my inspiration! Keep going with videos like this!

[@TheStuckBR]

Do u have ig or something? Id like to talk with u a bit if possible

[@warspartan420]

youtube is not a job

[@gloriahufnagel5556]

One things for certain.. Women have always been fighting for something.. I admire these women before us. Because of them we have the right to vote, can wear what we want & say what we want. We DID have control over our bodies, but that’s another subject, for another day., I would love to see a longer video!! This one is well edited & quite interesting..

[@hippiechick2112]

I love your videos!!! They are factual, professional, and quite entertaining. Thank you!!

[@nickangelo9971]

I really enjoy your videos!! Maybe a Halloween in 1920s video would be a good idea!! ;-)

[@The1920sChannel]

I've decided to take that suggestion! Thanks for the comment!

[@nickangelo9971]

@@The1920sChannel Just watched the video!!! Great work!! Thank u ;-)

[@jeaniechowdhury6739]

I just love this content ☮️❤️

[@johnwaring8617]

If only Flapper fashion was brought back today as it surely was THE most stylish and sexiest ever!

[@kay9334]

Love your channel 🎀

[@robertachurchill3863]

I LOVE this history!

[@arthurgearheard4701]

Joan Crawford probably danced the meanest Charleston in " Our Dancing Daughters! "

[@kevinwoplin9322]

Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper. The girl you see at the smartest night clubs -- gowned to the apex of sophistication -- toying iced glasses, with a remote, faintly bitter expression -- dancing deliriously -- laughing a great deal with wide, hurt eyes''......F Scott Fitzgerald

[@jchow5966]

Terrific episode!!!!!!!!!

[@klachingmacgaming8400]

When you realize your grandparents were cooler than you were

[@warspartan420]

great grand parents

[@larry1824]

Hey it gave us Clara Bow and others.😅😅😅😅😅

[@ianmelonie6440]

Although I from tHe UK I always saw my grandmother was seen wearing a dropped waist dress and a long beaded necklace

[@DaveHogerty]

nice visual direction. thanks.

[@davidwesley2525]

My favorite flapper Cartoon icon BETTY BOOP. 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@canuckprogressive.3435]

Oh yeah! I'd never seen one before I binge watched them all on KZbin. I had only seen her in her last role in Who Framed Rodger Rabbit.

[@davidwesley2525]

@@canuckprogressive.3435 I have a playlist of almost all of Betty Boop cartoons from 1930 to 1939.

[@calvinguile1315]

Could you do one on men's fashion from the 20s?

[@warspartan420]

easy blue jeans and a cotton shirt that the blacks picked

[@Jivolt]

Still the greatest fashion trend of all time.

[@bigwillietheb]

Flappers were so sexy, hard to believe this was 100 years ago

[@georgerodriquez7744]

So to say that they were the ones open the doors for all of women.So thank you flappers

[@warspartan420]

nah its been 100 years get a mans jobs

[@markwood3389]

Good job. Was this a school assignment? If I may add a little constructive criticism... You repeat that bit about prostitution a little too much. Flappers were mostly just common girls, and they were everywhere - all over the country. They weren't really considered to be like prostitutes.

[@warspartan420]

ya there whores completely different

[@_jms430]

Nevertheless they were rebellious.

[@christinavakas]

Love this info. Thank you.

[@bassethoundproductions3897]

I have a great picture of my grandmother in her flapper outfit. She said was a great time for her.

[@patrickmurphy8222]

Not my grandparents. Especially my grandmother on my dad's side, a staunch German Catholic. They were probably horrified by this new trend.

[@MalevEvans-dw3do]

My grandmother went out to tea dances while husband was serving on the North Atlantic service on HMS Trinidad. Didn't end well for their marriage

[@matthewnickles7105]

LOVE LOVE LOVE YOUR VIDEOS

[@lawriefoster5587]

The 1920's....my favorite era. I probably was a Flapper in a past life!!

[@TheMan40262]

well hopefully you dont continue to rebel in this current life...especially in this "20s"...

[@warspartan420]

you only get 1 life then theses death

[@christianmay3959]

Unlikely - I would have met you.

[@dylanesque66]

My granny was a flapper

[@johnvonundzu2170]

Well done! But the first photo @0:18 looks much more like a '60s production still of something like The Boyfriend than an actual 1920s pic. The clothes look like generic 20s pastiches and the lighting/photography used is way too modern (50s-60s-70s). My opinion only - all the other images you've used are perfectly authentic.

[@beatniksvintage]

I hadn't noticed that but now looking at it again, I think you're right. For one, the dresses are too short, all being cut above the knee and the makeup is more 60s looking than 20s. The definitely plays a big part in that photo.

[@johnvonundzu2170]

@@beatniksvintage Glad you agree. The white hat is sooo 1960s trying to be 20s. And I may be going out on a limb, but I'm thinking there's a whole lot of polyester in those dresses (which all look to be made by the same person at the same time as well).

[@JewelRiders]

but it also works because he's just saying they're the icon of the20s :) so it works to show later homages. but def a good eye to pick out the production inaccuracies :)

[@dan-ho1zz]

Background music goes kinda hard

[@warspartan420]

no

[@garywilloughby6893]

The boots these girls wore was not mentioned they left them unbuckled when they walked the boots flapped.

[@UnderTheElm]

2:32 Surprise, flappers still wore what was quintessentially a corset.

[@immaterialimmaterial5195]

Thanks!!! XX

[@Karman7]

Should history teachers show this? My history teacher did and I felt very uncomfortable

[@maniclamarre3745]

tho this vid was just a hw assignment i am now heavily interested in this-

[@warspartan420]

grammar is key

[@nutmeg208]

It's kind of a shame that he feels the need to tell us not everyone in the 20's dressed as flappers. That's like someone 100 years from now saying that 65 year old women in 2023 didn't wear backwards baseball caps, leather, and tattoos. Duh.

[@adamkadman]

Why the name Flappers -- The stately and reserved generation had calmer music and more graceful dances. When these young "Flappers" danced they bounced around to the beat, and their chest would flap up and down.

[@HospitalForSouls.X]

It's funny how some things change....about a year ago I completely ditched all of my makeup and that was my idea of finally being free, lol.

[@christianmay3959]

Maybe because you also look at least pretty even without it.

[@regrob16]

Kind of got goose bumps comparing that era to now. We got our version of the Spanish flu with cov. Instead of jazz we have rap and the over sexualization through movements like slut walk and hot girl Summers. Not to mention the mainstreaming of prostitute like looks. I guess the only thing we're waiting for now is to great depression

[@thefearlessbros]

I guess we'll have to wait until 2029.

[@davidmitchell2446]

@@thefearlessbros Screw another great depression! New World Order might be coming. By 2029 most likely you will own nothing and be happy with that! This pandemic is just the beginning stage of what's to come! Today's music and culture is nothing like the roaring jazz age of the 1920s nor should it compare to the inhuman joke that is modern society. #AntiWoke #EnjoyTheDecline

[@davidmitchell2446]

@Reginald Roberts It would be extremely cringe to compare the jazz age and great depression to the deranged circus called modern society aka the age of wokeness. It would be like comparing the Golden Age of Hip Hop of the 80s and 90s; a artistic/cultural movement influenced by the jazz age to the post-modern bull crap that is mumble rap, trap, drill and whatever. It doesn't even make any lick of sense and it never will!!!!

[@trevormichael4906]

@@davidmitchell2446 You know. I’m inclined to agree. But then again. I’m sure the older generations that watched the “roaring 20s” also called it a deranged circus. Who knows. Clearly the older generations had it right, in my opinion.

[@christianmay3959]

If only they were real prostitutes.

[@SilasLives1]

I think I just read this almost word for word in Wikipedia last night.

[@lizj5740]

Someone must have rewritten the Wikipedia flappers article, as that is not the case now.

[@warspartan420]

not a reputable source

[@dwaynewingate893]

The first punk rockers

[@warspartan420]

what?

[@michellelekas211]

I know the song playing during this video but I forget the name. Help?

[@warspartan420]

sex

[@michellelekas211]

@@warspartan420 Thanks!

[@egrintarg230]

Wow OMG. At 4:55 it is Lili Reinhart.

[@johnmoesche3959]

I wear sandals. Does that count?

[@warspartan420]

no

[@mechmusicman]

Now I know why my 100 yo aunt went to the Casino every weekend.

[@warspartan420]

what? your grandma is a hoe???

[@rbilleaud]

One thing you left out was the influence of the flappers in Europe. In Europe, particularly in Berlin, the flapper culture was probably bigger than it was in the U.S. deserves a mention.

[@The-Autistic-Rat]

That was the beginning of the end

[@actionman9357]

I like 'Flappers'! If it wasn't for 'Flappers' I'd never get a 'free one'! 😯

[@edszewczyk]

Surprising that you wouldn’t mention Zelda Fitzgerald, the epitome of the flapper.

[@tsz5868]

Zelda was the epitome of rich, famous and bipolar murican young woman. She would be on meds nowadays.

[@edszewczyk]

@@tsz5868 She and Scott also had horrible drinking problems, which may have aggravated her emotional problems. She'd probably also be in AA. Despite it all, however, she was the model of the flapper.

[@eyecomeinpeace2707]

Heck, I want me a Flapper chick. They were the sexiest women of the last 100 years.

[@houfou]

I love Flappers.

[@warspartan420]

hoe lover????

[@houfou]

@@warspartan420 hehe. Not anymore.

[@theknightofbadassness301]

Well slapper in England means a sexualy loose woman. So maybe it's from the same root

[@TonyGuyda]

What woman did F. Scott Fitzgerald designate as the ultimate flapper? Joan Crawford!

[@pinksparkle258]

I just know I was a flapper in a former life!! Bathtub gin, hot jazz, cigarettes in those long holders, bobbing the hair, youth & rebellion!!

[@silverphoenix684]

Narration is kind of muffled.

[@georgerodriquez7744]

So from now on when a little old lady tells us how they couldnt or do anything bad i will look at them and say sure i believe you grandmom

[@markojotic]

Spanish flu was during the war

[@smooches1368]

In the sixties and seventies the cool/beautiful woman had long hair , "that rolls and flows all down her breasts" (Bob Dylan, 1964). How unliberated is that? What a burden. I think up does are funny; hair piled upon hair. Or Loni Anderson on "WKRP in Cincinnati". What a joke. Check out Amelia Earhart's style: short and windblown. Is that not freedom? Shake it out, do the Charleston.

[@warspartan420]

you gave me cancer of the brain.

[@lowrideralternatives7581]

I wish i was a lost generation 😔

[@harryknackers7892]

I think we know how they became flappers.

[@warspartan420]

sex

[@mantirig4139]

Hopefully lightning strikes twice and the coming 20's come roaring in!

[@maxi9549]

Grüße gehen raus an die 9d jojojo geschichte und so

[@miroeppert8975]

Grüße zurück du sclingel

[@warspartan420]

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[@JewelRiders]

01:0 aint it funny how 20's love pandemics lol smh...

[@jayshroomalt]

HAH

[@warspartan420]

wash your filthy body and then kill china

[@frenchfrench8188]

E

[@warspartan420]

no

[@switoslawstowbunenko9187]

PROPAGANDA

[@canuckprogressive.3435]

What?

[@warspartan420]

your a terrorist

[@thatguyerik3573]

Fortnite

[@warspartan420]

good video but women cant maintain a mans job there just to weak.