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These Fabulous Facts About Flappers Prove they Made the 20s Roar

1920s - Roaring Twenties
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19. Boys Wanted Girls Without Girdles

Two friends in the 1920s showing the latest dance moves for the camera. Flavor Wire.

Girdles were confining and restrictive, and boys preferred girls who were daring enough to take them off. As opposed to women who wore loose-fitting clothes that had no shape, boys in the Roarin’ Twenties wanted girls who had a figure that they could get their arms around. Morals were looser all around than they are in the 21st century.

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