Flappers appeared in Great Britain after World War I. F.Scott Fitzgerald described the ideal flapper as "lovely, expensive, and about nineteen." There was also people who referred to flappers as a giddy, attractive, somewhat foolish girl, and someone who had both a image and a attitude. Elders such as parents did not approve of the flapper life style, because in this time this was very shocking behavior. One flapper wrote her parents a letter defending the flapper "life-style. Below is a little bit of that letter.

The letter

If one judge by appearances, I suppose I am a flapper. I am within the age limit. I wear bobbed hair, the badge of flapperhood. (And, oh, what a comfort it is!), I powder my nose. I wear fringed skirts and bright-colored sweaters, and scarfs, and waists with Peter Pan collars, and low-heeled "finale hopper" shoes. I adore to dance. I spend a large amount of time in automobiles. I attend hops, and proms, and ball-games, and crew races, and other affairs at men's colleges. But none the less some of the most thoroughbred superflappers might blush to claim sistership or even remote relationship with such as I. I don't use rouge, or lipstick, or pluck my eyebrows. I don't smoke (I've tried it, and don't like it), or drink, or tell "peppy stories." I don't pet. And, most unpardonable infringement of all the rules and regulations of Flapperdom, I haven't a line! But then--there are many degrees of flapper. There is the semi-flapper; the flapper; the superflapper. Each of these three main general divisions has its degrees of variation. I might possibly be placed somewhere in the middle of the first class.

Some famous flappers

Clara Bow.
July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965.
An American actress who rose to stardom in the silent film era.

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Isadora Duncan.
May 26, 1877 - September 14, 1927.
 was a dancer, considered by many to be the creator of modern dance.

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Josephine Baker.
June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975.
An American born dancer, singer, and actress.

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