Lifestyle Of Flappers In The 1920's

The Roaring Twenties The 1920s is when entertainment started to blossom. Entertainment such as movies and television, radio, and jazz music. There was many more forms of entertainment developing in this time period as well. New styles were coming up too such as flappers and gangsters. The 1920s were new things were being invented and new form of entertainment were popping up everywhere.

In the 1920s there was a “new bread” of young women, they were called Flappers. A new kind of woman with short, bobbed hair, shorter skirts and freer clothes to match her new, freer lifestyle. Flappers were independent young women who liked to go to jazz clubs and dance how they wanted, smoke cigarettes, and openly drink alcohol. Flappers were best known

The dances were fast paced and energetic. The Charleston can be danced solo or with a partner. It was a really fast paced dance that had 350 beats per minute. All these dances were danced at speakeasies along with Jazz music. These new dances inspired the new fashion styles. The dances were so fast paced that the women need looser clothing so they could move. That’s why the dresses got shorter and a little looser. Same for the men’s clothing, they also got looser/baggier.

The novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald “The Great Gatsby” illustrates the life young people. Fitzgerald described the life of people and the parties during the twenties. Writers during this time found it easy to write about all the changes happening and others struggled to write about it. Reading was popular especially during the winter because the activities were limited. People were still loved reading when television and radio started being introduced. It was still a popular form of entertainment. Magazines also became popular. They had short articles and it would pass time by when they needed

Jazz had a significant change on the culture. Jazz was known as “race records” because it was usually only played in black neighborhoods. Jazz influenced the way people dressed, danced, and lived their lives. Louis Armstrong was one of the biggest names in Jazz along sides with King Oliver. King Oliver was the root of jazz music. Most jazz bands were in New Orleans and South Chicago. Armstrong played in Oliver’s band but in the mid-twenties Oliver went solo. They were both huge names in Jazz music. People wanted to listen to jazz, it made them feel free.

The Harlem Renaissance was a movement that took place in Harlem. The Harlem Renaissance is defined as “an African American cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s that celebrated black traditions, the black voice, and black ways of life”. It was a name given to the culture. It began at the end of WW1. It was when many African Americans were becoming popular for their music, poems, photos, and scholars. This movement created a new black cultural identity. It made it possible for the whites to accept the wealthy black and also for whites to like the jazz music. For everyone jazz music was a way of