Source 43:  Newspaper extract: 'Boys replaced by Flappers', Daily Mirror, 7 January 1916

 

Description

This newspaper article is taken from the following publication:

Marlow, Joyce (ed.), 'The Virago Book of Women and the Great War', London, Virago Press, 1999, page 160.

[Shelfmark: HP1.200.2982]

The article first appeared in the Daily Mirror on 7 January 1916. At the beginning of the 20th century, the term 'flapper' was used to refer to a teenage girl or young woman. During the 1920s, it was used more specifically to describe women who adopted modern dress and attitudes.