The 1920's: Roaring or Boring?

Mildred Unger's Plane Wing Charleston

 

This clip is a video of a young flapper in 1927 who danced on the wing of an airplane while it was in the air! This fearlessness is the epitome of the flapper image during the roaring 1920s time period. Women no longer wanted to be cooped up in the house after they had already experienced more freedom during WWI when they worked the men’s jobs. Just like the colonists did not want to be restricted after tasting self-government, the women did not want to be restrained from self-expression. The 1920s were a time of roaring change in the role of women in society. Women went from acting as men’s dolls to free spirits who were outrageous - so outrageous that they would dance on the wings of airplanes! This video clip from 1927 definitely conveys the roaring energies of the 1920s.