Flapper girls

Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s

who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted
their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers
were seen as brash for wearing
excessive makeup, drinking smoking, driving automobiles, and otherwise
flouting social and sexual norms.[1] Flappers had their
origins in the liberal period of the Roaring Twenties, the social, political
turbulence and increased transatlantic cultural exchange that followed the
end of World War I, as well as the export of American jazz culture to
Europe.

Entomology

The slang word "flapper", describing ayoung woman, is sometimes

supposed torefer to a young bird flapping its wingswhile learning to fly.
However, it may derive.
from an earlier use in northern England tomean "teenage girl", referring
to one whose hair is not yet put up and whoseplaited pigtail "flapped" on
her back;[2] or from an older word meaning "prostitute".[3] The slang
word "flap" was used for a young prostitute as early as 1631.[4] By the
1890s, the word "flapper" was emerging in England as popular slang both
for a very
young prostitute,[5][6] and, in a more general and less derogatory sense,

of any lively mid-teenage girl .[