In the fullness of time, some members of the church were coming around to see the best in the flappers, as this 1927 magazine article makes clear:
“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’.”
Unlike some members of clergy, the wise sages of Hollywood were easily numbered among those who held favorable views about flappers and all of Flapperdom, but they didn’t always produce films that were sympathetic to their causes; for example, the editors of Flapper magazine hated this movie.
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