Jazz Age, restlessness, worship of youth, dissatisfaction with traditional values, 1920’s Sparked the “Liberated Woman”

Young people testing new boundaries with fast cars, short skirts and free thinking changed the rules of the game. 

my great aunt Bunny in 1929

Great aunt Bunny at 25, on the right, Nana’s younger sister

 

The flapper symbolized an age anxious to enjoy itself, anxious to forget the past, anxious to ignore the future.” (from Jacques Chastenet,
“Europe in the Twenties” in Purnell’s History of the Twentieth Century)
 

Young women in the 1920s, didn’t want the drudgery of social conventions and the routine of daily life.

Fashion and Maybelline, in the late 1920’s appealed to the modern woman

Advertising helped shape a new identity for men and women


Read more about Aunt Bunny and her coming of age in the 1920’s, in my book The Maybelline Story, now on Audible Books, Amazon.