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Drust will be back with brand new content next week. The Over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. Every day we all get dressed. Welcome to Dressed, the history of

fashion, a podcast where we explore the who what win of why we wear. We are

fashion historians and your hosts Aprilahan, and Cassidy Zachary.

Well, Halloween was just yesterday and on the heels of our fashion that kills episode,

April and I wanted to cover another decidedly morbid topic. In fact, we thought it would be fun to dissect the flapper.

Well, I mean, not literally, of course, but it is going to be fun to take apart this iconic 1920s lady apart

piece by piece from the top of her bobbed head of hair all the way down to her dancing feet. But first, what exactly is a flapper and where did she come from? You might think

you know the answer to this, but what we have to share with you today may just

surprise you. Right because the so-called flapper is most often characterized as

the 1920s phenomenon representative of a new type of fashion forward, free-spirited modern young

woman that emerged in the post-World War I era.

And to this day, she really embodies the zeitgeist and excitement of the Roaring 20s an era that's defined by this unbridled

pursuit of an indulgence in entertainment and extravagance.

However, despite popular opinion cast, the term did not originate in the 1920s.

Although some narratives will tell you that it came from the 1920s as a fashion trend for unfastened rubber boots that quote unquote

flapped when the wares walked. This is actually not the case. And we're going to quote one of our favorite

fashion historians Claire Sorrow.

She once wrote about the flapper saying, quote, despite this potent imagery,

the word has its origins in 16th century British slang.

Deriving from the colloquial flap,

the word indicated a young female prostitute

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