What is the typical outfit of a flapper?

The roaring twenties will forever be remembered as the decade of flappers. “Bright Young Things” dressed up for a night on the town at a dance hall or illegal speakeasy. read more

The dress shape that defined a decade can be summed up as knee-length, dropped waist-line, sleeveless or v-shaped front and back. Showing skin top and bottom but keeping the torso covered. Common defining features of 1920s flapper dresses include: beads, sequins, lace, fringes, chiffon, satin, flowers, shiny and shimmery fabric, uneven hemlines, peter pan collars. read more

Violet Romer in a flapper dress c. 1915 The standard non-slang usage appeared in print as early as 1903 in England and 1904 in the United States, when novelist Desmond Coke used it in his college story of Oxford life, Sandford of Merton:"There's a stunning flapper". read more

Know what a Flapper girl is. The dictionary defines a flapper as -"A young woman, especially one in the 1920s, who showed disdain for conventional dress and behavior." That is, conventional in the 1920s. read more

In reality, the flapper [ at the time more of a derogatory term for women of loose morals etc ] was a newly liberated woman, freed from the ‘ Gibson girl’ corset and s-bend silhouettes of the Edwardian era, and the constraints on her lifestyle that such clothing, inflicted on her. read more