Modem Girls Aren’t Flappers

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 364, 26 May 1928, Page 22

Modem Girls Aren’t Flappers

Women With Poise and Soberly Dressed rained. and a head ox hair, writes the Xew TorS correspondent of 'lllß Dally Express.” These, a- all events. are the specifiea tic ns of Mies 102 i as set forth in the entreat somber of the “Junior League Magazine,” the nations’ organ s of the younger social sets of thirty-five American dries. The outcome of a countryside survey by Junior Leaguers shows the flapper has sang her swan song in the north, south, east and -west. “These hard-boflec little things with shaven necks hare gone completely cut of style,” says Mrs. Alexander Kirs. an active Chicago Jtmior Leaguer. “The style in young girls this year is to be quiet, conservative, and terribly in earnest about careers.” Post-war Creation The article, written for the magazine by four leaguers from four corners of the nation, reads in part as follows:“The flapper was a post-war creation. Her hair overnight resembled a Hottentot’s, her skirts ended abont her knees; she sneaked her brothers cigarettes and swore like a trooper. She chewed gum vigorously and incessantly. Her make-up was as crude as a clown’s. She was supposed to be a “neck artist,’ ‘booze honnd,’ and ‘human smokestack.’ “The flapper was not half so • sophisticated as the present-day gdrh Toung IS2S is smoother and more polished and uses more subtle methods, that is alt “She wears black satin instead of cerise: she blends her ronge evenly; she inhales her cigarettes without puffing furiously. She dances gracefully to muffled jazz and drinks liquor quite as much as her predecessor, but from a teacup rather than a flask. “She frequently is to be found in bookshops and art galleries, and unblushingly admits her aptitude for . tending tenement babies. She is able to swim when conversation plunges her into deep waters of political policies. “The flapper’s Tine’ with its 'wise cracks’ 13 passe. It no longer is considered -fx essential mental equipment for the successful girl.” Patsy Brooks, of Waterbary, Connecticut, gives the recipe for last year’s flapper &s: —"Take two bare knees; two rolled stockings, two flapping goloshes, two plucked eyebrows, one short skirt, one lipstick, one powder puff 1.000 bobbed hairs, thirty-two cigarettes, and a ‘boy friend’ with a ‘hip.’ Season with a pinch of salt and a dash of pep and cover all with a spicy sauce, and you have the 1527 flapper.”