USA: 'Where there's Smoke there's Fire', watercolour on illustration board, Russell Patterson (1893-1977), 1920s

Full-length illustration of a fashionably dressed flapper standing with one hand on her hip and a cigarette in the other hand.

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, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms. 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.

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