Charleston Cutie Elite Adult Costume

Perfect for Your Roaring 20s party!

You will make a grand entrance in this super deluxe Theatrical Quality flapper costume utilizing superior materials and trimmings along with true garment finishing. This style is available in multiple sizes for true apparel fit. The quality will be seen, felt and admired! This costume includes a black satin dress detailed with fringe, faux rhinestone buckles, lace overlay accents, fishnet stockings, long pearl necklace and sequined jeweled feather headpiece.

Available Sizes:

• Small 4-6
• Medium 8-10
• Large 12-14
• Extra Large 16-18

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The Charleston became a popular dance craze in the international community in the 1920s. Despite its green history, Charleston is most frequently associated with flappers and the speakeasy. Here, these young women would dance alone or together as a way of mocking the "drys," or citizens who supported the Prohibition amendment, as the Charleston was then considered quite immoral and provocative.

The term flapper in the 1920s referred to a "new breed" of young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to the new jazz music, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms.

Despite all the scandal flappers generated, their look became fashionable in a toned-down form among even respectable older women. Most significantly, the flappers removed the corset from female fashion, raised skirt and gown hemlines and popularized short hair for women.

Flapper dresses were straight and loose, leaving the arms bare and dropping the waistline to the hips. Silk or rayon stockings were held up by garters. Skirts rose to just below the knee by 1927, allowing flashes of knee to be seen when a girl danced or walked into a breeze, although the way they danced made any long loose skirt flap up to show their knees. Flappers powdered or put rouge on their knees to show them off when dancing.