ABSTRACT
The world had seen nothing like it. Young women marched into hair salons with long, lustrous heads of hair and demanded to have it all cut off. They walked out with their hair chopped to chin length and mounds of hair left on the beauty parlor floor. The girls wrapped strips of cloth around their chests to make them look as flat as possible. Preachers started giving sermons about the sins of the younger generation. Newspaper reporters loved the new fashions and the daring adventures of the young ladies. They started calling the girls “flappers” because of how they danced and flapped their arms about. Lipstick Long was one of the most famous flappers. Her real name was Lois Long, and she was hired by the brand-new magazine The New Yorker to write about the jazz clubs and speakeasies of New York. Clara Bow was another very famous flapper.
