Flapper
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Flappers were a subculture of young Western women prominent after the First World War and through the 1920s who wore knee-length skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain
Actress Louise Brooks (1927)
A flapper on a ship (1929)
Violet Romer in a flapper dress c. 1915
An advertisement for the 1920 silent film comedy The Flapper, with Olive Thomas, before the look of the flapper had started to coalesce.
Betty Boop
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Betty Boop is a cartoon character designed by Grim Natwick at the request of Max Fleischer. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studi
Flapper
…acceptable during the economic hardships of the 1930s. The popular bobbed haircut was the cause for some women being fired from their jobs. See also Betty Boop Generation gap Hawksian woman Interbellum Generation Jazz Age Lost Generation Modern girl New Woman Thoroughly Modern Millie, 1962 film and 2002 stage…
The transformation from pre-Code to post-Code Left: Betty Boop's Ker-Choo Right: Musical Mountaineers
Bud Counihan's Betty Boop (October 23, 1934)
Helen Kane and Betty Boop – Photoplay, April 1932
A display of Betty Boop collectibles