Who were flappers?

During the 1920's the flappers represented a change in the American woman in society. They started showing skin with shorter skirts. They started wearing shorter hair and makeup. The skinny boyish figure was stylish at this time and, in some cases, so was unisex fashion. They drank, smoked, cursed, danced, participated in petting parties, and engaged in other activities seen as scandalous by the society of the day.