What Became Of The Flappers?

[t.j.payeur]

Great article, thanks for reading it to us...
From flappers to jazz babies to bobby-soxers to greasers to beatniks to hippies to street freaks to goths and new wave and grunge...it's called the passage of time.."A rose will bloom..it then will fade. So does a youth..so does the fairest maid..."

[NGMonocrom]

I always assumed The Great Depression killed off their happy mood.
That's actually not a joke.

[SionSweet]

What an interesting piece, thank you!

[LARomeo-jyuw]

Time marched on they got older and a new trend came along the next decade like it continues to this day !

[michaelmcgee]

I live in the city and state of Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda's home museum, Scotty had been long dead . Poor Zelda got a mental illness but she was a good artist.

[skateforlife]

Your videos are great! what an interesting article

[theoldar]

This was written long before the flappers themselves faded away.

[Lonovavir]

Perhaps they grew wings and flew away? Seriously the Great Depression made "flapping" unaffordable and unacceptable.

[rhobot]

Hi, Big Sheik! Last year I listened to an unabridged audiobook of THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED. It seems like flappers actually got started pre WW1? The book was published in 1922. Anthony Patch is already into Gloria Gilbert before his WW1 service. She was veritably PUNK for her time! Anyway, my point is, we associate flappers with the 20s but the idea of them predates the 20s.

Actually the scene that sticks out for me the most in the book is this one passage, so modern, about Patch noticing all the billboards in NYC and the one telling people to repent and be saved by Jesus. That strain of American religiosity.. he got it!

Great book. A little long at times. Loved the ending, that Gloria was so dirty looking, or something off about her, after a lifetime of fastidious cleanliness. That they had the money, finally, but they were trashed as people.
And anyone reading this and thinking I have just spoiled the ending... SORRY!

[ehgvldo]

Interesting article, but absolutely no different from every generation which followed. Poodle skirts in the 50s, beehive hairdos in the 60s, the hippie movement in the late 60s/ early 70s, "yuppies" in the 80s, mullets in the 90s, and so on. Every generation seems to have defining things about it which are unique to that time period.

[voyaristika]

Zelda could write. This article was interesting, reflecting a time written during that time by a young "modern" woman of that time. I'm glad thiscwas in my feed. Thanks!

[senior_ranger]

"Cognomen, " sure sign of a Classical education.

[jonwashburn]

I figure that they sprouted feathers and flapped away. 🐦

[michiels.]

I have a growing collection of 1920s books and articles. If you are interested in any particular topic and need to do some research let me know and I'll see if I can find you additional reference material.

[brennocalderan]

Most likely disbanded due to the great depression, since the 1930s was about everything....except fun.
Sometimes I wonder if there were Flapper gangs.

[sjk]

I think 🤔 what happened was they got older, got married, had kids, and moved on with their lives.

[esotericmissionary]

"Woman, you betta not be thinkin' of going to Mars again!" --The Legend of Zelda, or something

[VenusDeMilitant]

Same thing as the hippies. They went out of style. The depression and he second world war took the fun out of frivolity. Then like all humans they grew up.

[pmcllc]

they just find later on in live a simp that's it

[johnreed]

' Little Willy ' has other connotations in the UK !