A flapper was a young woman in the late 1910s and β20s known for wearing short dresses and bobbed hair and embracing freedom from traditional societal constraints. The emergence of the flapper was part of a trend of increasing freedom for women and was closely associated with a clash between traditional and modern values that inflamed societal tensions.
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