What It's Like To Be A Flapper!

I would love to be able to go back into the time of the late 1950s to early 1960. In the fifties if you had a television, you would be considered the luckiest kid on the block. Even though at the beginning they only had a few shows, anything would be fun. In 1956 some scientists did a study on how much kids ages 10-16 watched television.  The results showed that an average kid watched six hours of television a day which was equal to how long they went to school every day, that’s completely different from today’s rating. Television was just one of the new technologies. In 1950 Paper Mate made its first leak free ball point pen. The first copy machine was made 1950, also.  The Chevrolet Corvette became the first car to have an all-fiberglass body in 1953. In 1955 Disneyland opened for business in California; I imagine that that opening was huge, today kids still are excited to go to Disney World but back then I’m sure not even half of the kids that go today went back then.  Fashion during the 1960s didn't start out with colorful clothes. They were dully designed and looked better on older people, most would say. Then little shops called boutiques opened selling cheap and colorful clothing for younger people. During the decade, women started wearing miniskirts, leather boots and fake eyelashes. Men wore Paisley shirts, velvet trousers and high collared Regency jackets. Men also began to wear their hair long.  The “younger generation”, known as the roaring twenties! In the 1920s, a new woman was born. She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks, she was a flapper. The term "flapper" first appeared in Great Britain after World War I. It was there used to describe young girls, still somewhat awkward in movement who had not yet entered womanhood. It’s amazing how much different our generation is now from what it used to be “back in the day.”