During the 1920s, a new type of young woman was born. These women were called flappers. A short run magazine, The Flapper, was published in Chicago in 1922. In their first edition, the magazine gives their definition of what flappers are:
“She’s independent, full of grace, a pleasing form, a pretty face; is often saucy, also pert, and doesn’t think it wrong to flirt; knows what she wants and gets it, too ; receives the homage that’s her due; her love is warm, her hate is deep, for she can laugh and she can weep; but she is true as true can be, her will’s unchained, her soul is free; she charms the young, she jars the old, within her beats a heart of gold; she furnishes the spice of life—and makes some boob a darn good wife!”
With a female associate editor, and contributing editors “The Flappers of America,” the magazine includes pictures, and comical and witty descriptions of life as a flapper.
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