(1) Whether the goody-goody Gibson girl or the dancing flapper , the single woman finally had purchasing power.(2) Moreover, the flapper , independent and rebellious, was both a standardized image and an individualized one, as young women adopted a stance that made them both subjects of the gaze and objects of it.(3) Leading this group was a gorgeous blonde flapper dressed in darling scarlet and smoking a cigarette carelessly.(4) Upon entering, a charming flapper greets you and beckons you to see the 1920's show.(5) The so-called modern girl's agency was largely restricted to new choices of clothing, make-up, and hair style that created a package resembling the get-up of the American flapper .(6) I knew the last surviving daughter as well and she was a pistol, married eight times, a former flapper from the Twenties.(7) Was Ruth a modern woman, a young flapper , or a traditional housewife and mother?(8) A flapper and a flirt, she was white, middle-class and Midwestern.(9) In the late 1920s, the ÔÇÿmoga,ÔÇÖ or ÔÇÿmodern girl,ÔÇÖ took elements of style from American flappers as they created their own personae of assertive, public, working women.(10) Cocktail parties and distilled spirits became the rage - as glamorous as flappers , swing dancing, and jazz.(11) Symbolic of the new freedom were the pre-World War I bohemians of New York's Greenwich Village and the sexually precocious young women of the 1920s, the so-called flappers .(12) The twenties have spawned an image of bathtub gin, speakeasies, flappers , and decadence: in short, The Jazz Age.(13) ÔÇÿSo,ÔÇÖ I asked, noticing the piano player, the flappers and the antique cars on the road outside, ÔÇÿNow that we're at least in our own century, what do we do, now?ÔÇÖ(14) I don't want Pat to be a genius, I want her to be a flapper, because flappers are brave and gay and beautiful.(15) Considering this, it is not surprising that the dance's origins can be traced back to the roaring twenties - the time of the flappers and the first Miss America contest.(16) It's flappers dancing the Charleston with abandon.
