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

1920s - Roaring Twenties

15. They Changed the Fashion Industry

A group of women known as flappers in the 1920s. Reddit.

The length of the flappers’ skirts wasn’t the only thing to shake up the fashion industry. Their dresses were boxy, more androgynous than cinch-waist dresses that had previously been the norm. Flappers also wore rolled-up stockings, bras, and lingerie instead of girdles and pantyhose. Additionally, they wore their hair short and bold.

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