Flappers

During the 1920s a new found freedom in women occurred, and everyone knew it was the dawning of the age of the flappers. The flapper style the way women were dressed during the 1920s they were called this because of there short cropped hair, short (by those days standards) skirts. Flappers also began to wear make-up, drink, smoke, vote, and dance at parties. this was the style during the 1920s and thus relevant to the era and setting of The Great Gatsby. the flappers were also the first to carry flasks on there person traditionally in there leggings.