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The term **flappers** in the 1920s referred to a "new breed" of young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.

clubs, this was very usual.
 * Flappers** doing their dance routine. In the speakeasy

During the roaring twenties there was a band on alcohol and basicly haveing fun and danceing. But people tried to fool the goverment and had night clubs in which the drank,had fun,danced. The woman wore flapper dresses that redefined modern womanhood in those times. Immortalized in movies and magazine covers, young women’s fashion of the 1920s was both a trend and a social statement, a breaking-off from the rigid Victorian way of life. These young, rebellious, middle-class women, labeled ‘flappers’ by older generations, did away with the corset and donned slinky knee-length dresses, which exposed their legs and arms. The hairstyle of the decade was a chin-length bob. Speakeasies became popular and numerous as the Prohibition years progressed and led to the rise of gangsters such as Lucky Luciano,Al Capone ,Moe Dalitz, Joseph Ardizzone and sam Maceo. They commonly operated with connections to organized crime and liquor smuggling. While the U.S.Federal Government agents raided such establishments and arrested many of the small figures and smugglers, they rarely managed to get the big bosses; the business of running speakeasies was so lucrative that such establishments continued to flourish throughout the nation. In major cities, speakeasies could often be elaborate, offering food, live bands, and floor shows.