This Is What 1920s People REALLY Thought About Flappers

0:00 Intro
1:17: A Flapper's Appeal To Parents (1922)
10:40: Flapper Jane (1925)
26:40: Flapper Americana Novissima (1922), Abridged Version
47:17: The Modern Girl And Why She Is Painted (1924)
1:05:21: What Becomes Of Our Flappers (1925)
1:11:02: Flappers And The Movies (1924)
1:13:25: Dr. G. Stanley Hall On Flappers (1924)
1:16:28: Mary E. Woolley On Flappers (1924)
1:19:10: Magistrate Bans The Word "Flapper" From Court (1923)
1:20:16: Flappers Are Not All Alike (1923)
1:21:48: Flapper Robs In Jail (1924)
1:23:08: George Fabian Studies Flapper Slouch (1922)
1:24:26: Girl Steals To Become A Flapper (1922)
1:26:29: Pennsylvania PTA Makes Dress Regulations (1923)
1:27:54: Would-Be Flapper Commits Suicide (1923)
1:28:58: Flapper Doll (1922)
1:29:47: Flappers Merely Humans (1922)

[cynthiaalver]

I used to love just sitting with my grandma and talking about when she was young and a young married woman.I was only a teenager but it was simply a joy. I loved my grandma very, very much and I miss her every day. Sometimes I still shake my head in awe when I remember that, as a child, her father drove the family into town by horse and wagon, and my grandma lived to see the space shuttle.

[pgronemeier]

My Grandmother was born in 1901. On a farm. There wasn't a jazz bone in her body. 1920's barn dance, but not even that. My Grandfather played the concertina. But just old German songs. My Grandmother lived to ALMOST 100. She never did like to talk about 'the old days'. I was always sad about that.

[samspade]

My aunt Gladys born 1900 lived in Chicago 1920s. She said speakeasies were fun, booze, music and dancing. Said Al Capone would sit at there table and tell jokes. Said he was the nicest man! Her husband a gangster name Isadore Goldberg was gunned down. His name is in Gangs of Chicago. She worked in a hospital as an accountant, I think she also did the gangs books also!! She was hidden by Treasury Dept people until they snuck her out of town. This and other stories told to me in the 1960s when I was 14 or so. Loved her so much.

[paulam]

Wow! What a wise and intelligent young Flapper who wrote that article!

[jp-hhxq]

Amazing how the cycle repeats. It feels like these letters could have been written yesterday with some adjustments. The struggles in society are similar 100 years later.

[kidmohair]

I applaud you for being critical of your earlier work.
and having the oomph to admit it, and correct it!

[emmabovary]

My grandmother said she danced with my grandfather because he was one of the few men wearing long sleeves. She didn’t bob her hair. But she wore the beaver coat, and drop waist dresses with high heels.

[mandychapin]

My grandma was born in 1907. When she was teenager, her best friend would run up to her room, close the door then put rouge on their knees. They would dance around the room giggling!

[sarahshanahan]

To think.... these young flapper girls became adults during the great depression.

I imagine this situation + their husbands, and brothers and other loved ones being sent to war in ww2.

Food shortages, rations and being forced to go and work in factories to make bullets and other military needs.

I imagine this put an end to their carefree playful days.

[auapplemac]

Sometimes after family holiday dinners, we'd sit around the table and the "older folk' would reminess about the "old country". I learned a lot about how they lived and what they went through during the pogroms in Russia. Then they might talk about their young adulthood in the US. How poor my mother's family was. Grandmom was a single mother of 5 after her husband died. How my parents met, etc. I was enthralled by their conversation. I miss that warm experience very much.

[comradeinternet]

Your content is so useful for anybody wanting to depict the 1920s accurately in a tabletop RPG. Thanks for that.

[libraryBDL]

My grandmother was born in 1894. She was a farm girl and was no flapper but she did bob her hair. Her father did not speak to her for several months; he was quite upset. She worked in town at the J.C. Penney mail order store and when she married wore a lovely knee length white satin and lace gown. My mother was born in 1928, too late to be a flapper, but she knew how to do the Charleston and other dances and told stories of rolling down her brown cotton stockings on her way to school....once out of sight of the house! I enjoyed your program. Thank you for doing the research.

[kdbee]

My dad's sisters were flappers. They're long gone now, but i loved talking to them and hearing the stories of their young girl days. These flappers werent very different from me in my youth or my own daughter now that age. Just young, carefree girls who want to have fun and enjoy their youth. Smart young women with everything to look forward to. Always a couple of bad apples to make the whole group look bad. Always somebody to judge.

[steviebeare]

Loving this long format, really good, especially when working mundane stuff whilst wanting to learn. Excellent channel 💯🙂

[Greywolfgrafix]

You're channel is awesome. I do a lot of comics set in the 1920's and 1930's.

[peterxyz]

I appreciate the long edit that I can listen to on a drive or walk.

It’s not being dishonest when I, one of your audience is asking for a long edit of several short vids.

[lukebrown]

I like how you used Etre fashion mock ups advertising as some of the pictures.NICE! LOVE YOUR CHANNEL.keep it up!

[DonkeyEngine]

This is sound journalism. Good cadence, interesting content, historically informative and relevant to our times.

[paulpowell]

Every generation blames the one that came before 😮

[TheFirstManticore]

My older cousin was a flapper, by all accounts. My grandmother certainly bobbed her hair, she hated having her hair long. But she was very respectable. Those were the days of Prohibition, and she fully complied with it. The cousin, on the other hand, ran away from home at 16 and got into various kinds of trouble. So, within my own family I see different reactions to the 1920s.