Chapter 18
The 1920s were the beginning of the modern era, and the addition of the woman suffrage amendment to the Constitution was only one way the world changed. It was the age of the flapper, and upswept, pompadoured hair was chopped away in favor of bobbed, free-flowing styles. Along with shorter hair came leg-baring dresses, turned-down hose, powdered knees, feathered boas, red lipstick, painted nails, and jazz music. The flappers seemed like rebels to their Gibson Girl mothers. They were living on their own terms, and in some ways they were no longer waiting, no longer allowing others to tell them how to be in the world. Men wore fine suits, slicked hair, and fedoras, and the passage of the Prohibition amendment made alcohol the center of wild, carousing parties in a way it had nev
