Suggested Reading: ‘The Great Gatsby’ Still Gets Flappers Wrong

In 2013, and for a very long time, when someone says ‘Flappers’ the images conjured are of the dancing girls of the jazz age. That image is, mostly, wrong. They were far more than arm candy, gangster molls and dancing girls. The flappers were more accurately an early wave of feminism. Although they didn’t have…

Suggested Reading: ‘The Great Gatsby’ Still Gets Flappers Wrong

In 2013, and for a very long time, when someone says ‘Flappers’ the images conjured are of the dancing girls of the jazz age. That image is, mostly, wrong. They were far more than arm candy, gangster molls and dancing girls. The flappers were more accurately an early wave of feminism. Although they didn’t have…