Editing Flapper (section)

==Magazines==
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In 1922, a small-circulation magazine – ''The Flapper'', located in Chicago – celebrated the flapper's appeal. On the opening page of its first issue, it proudly declared flappers' break with traditional values. Also, flappers defended them by contrasting themselves with earlier generations of women whom they called "clinging vines". They mocked the confining fashions and demure passivity of older women and reveled in their own freedom. They did not even acknowledge that the previous generation of female activists had made the flappers' freedom possible.<ref name="ultimatehistoryproject.com">Ferentinos, S. (n.d.). ''Not for Old Fogies: The Flapper''. Retrieved May 18, 2016, from http://www.ultimatehistoryproject.com/flapper.html</ref>

In 1923, the flapper magazine ''Experience'' included an article on police reform, possibly indicating a concern for societal issues.<ref name="historynewsnetwork.org">Jason Ulysses Rose (August 7, 2022). '' A Primary Source Shows the Connection Between 1920s Flappers and Social Media Youth Organizers Today''. Retrieved February 23, 2023, from https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/183623</ref>

In the 1920s, new magazines appealed to young German women with a sensuous image and advertisements for the appropriate clothes and accessories they would want to purchase. The glossy pages of ''Die Dame'' and ''Das Blatt der Hausfrau'' displayed the "Girl"—the flapper. She was young and fashionable, financially independent, and was an eager consumer of the latest fashions. The magazines kept her up to date on fashion, arts, sports, and modern technology such as automobiles and telephones.<ref>Nina Sylvester, "Before Cosmopolitan: The Girl in German women's magazines in the 1920s". ''Journalism Studies'' 8#4 (2007): 550–54.</ref>

Although many young women in the 1920s saw flappers as the symbol of a brighter future, some also questioned the flappers' more extreme behavior. Therefore, in 1923, the magazine began asking for true stories from its readers for a new column called "Confessions of a Flapper". Some of these were lighthearted stories of girls getting the better of those who underestimated them, but others described girls betraying their own standards of behavior in order to live up to the image of flappers. There were several examples: a newlywed confessed to having cheated on her husband, a college student described being told by a boyfriend that she was not "the marrying kind" because of the sexual liberties she had permitted him, and a minister's daughter recounted the humiliation of being caught in the lie of pretending she was older and more sophisticated than she was. Many readers thought that flappers had gone too far in their quest for adventure. One 23-year-old "ex-vamp" declared: "In my opinion, the average flappers from 15 to 19 were brainless, inconsiderate of others, and easy to get into serious trouble."<ref name="ultimatehistoryproject.com"/>

So, among the readers of ''The Flapper'', parts of them were celebrated for flappers' spirit and appropriation of male privilege, while parts of them acknowledged the dangers of emulating flappers too faithfully, with some even confessing to violating their own codes of ethics so as to live up to all the hype.<ref name="ultimatehistoryproject.com"/>