Flappers Film Clips
Recognizing the Good in Flappers (Literary Digest, 1927)
"Scorned for too long by churchmen as an ambulatory example of folly, the flapper at length finds herself defended by the Church. She is not, in this new view, the brainless, overdressed Jezebel that she has been pictured to be. 'She is a symbol of the times. As she sweeps down the street, she is like nothing so much as a fine, young spirited puppy-dog, eager for the fray'."The Portland "Oregonian" did not agree... Click here to read a 1922 article about the flapper and her religious doubt. *A Film Clip from the Mad Twenties and Those Offending Flappers*
| New York Court Rules That Women Can Smoke in Public (Atlanta Georgian, 1917)
A brief notice reporting on the arrest of three women for smoking in the Times Square subway station.Click here to read about feminine conversations overheard in the best New York nightclubs of 1937.
| Favorable Views of the Flapper (Literary Digest, 1922)
All seem to agree in this article that the Flapper and her contemporaries are certainly far more impolite than her predecessors ever were, but this is no reason to assume that Western Civilization will fall."Tho the pessimist rant and the critic croak to their heart's content, the present youth of the land are growing into the wisest, most virile, most versatile, most capable and most useful generation since history started." *Watch A Clip About Clara Bow,
| Flappers: They're Old Hat (N.Y. Times, 1922)
Since the preceding article was jam-packed with intolerant remarks from the "lip-service" corner of the Holier-Than-Thou clerical crowd, it seemed only fitting that we post this article which dwelt upon the far more accepting and just a wee-bit more Christian feelings of yet another clergyman who tended to think that the flappers were not really as queer as everyone liked to think they were."Painting faces is no new thing except in occasion. Belles and famous beauties of the past painted for State occasions. But then it was not good form to wear paint in daylight. Now it is, apparently. That many young women now carry this to extreme is not unusual..."
*Watch a Flapper Clip*
| One Thousand Negative Comments About the Flapper and Her Influence (Literary Digest, 1922)
A collection of low opinions concerning the Flapper and her confederates, gathered from numerous clerical magazines throughout the fruited plane:
"There is a great deal of frank talk among them that in many cases smacks of boldness. One hears it said that the girls are actually tempting the boys more than the boys do the girls, by their dress and conversation..."
| The Flapper's Influence on Fashion (The New Republic, 1922)
A shewed observer of fashion, Mary Alden Hopkins (1856-1930) noted how the Victorian dinosaurs who lorded-over the male-dominated, pro-corset fashion industry had attempted (unsuccessfully) to manipulate and coerce the shoppers of the early Twenties to reject the Chanel-inspired revolt that the young flappers were currently enjoying. "How can I sell these styles?...the flappers won't buy them."
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