Pre-Flapper

In the mid to late 1910s there was a World War. Men were enlisted to go overseas and fight for their country leaving behind families. Many of these men never returned. While the war was on, the soldiers needed weapons and ammunition, workers were in short supply and companies and factories were desperate so recruited women to do the men’s jobs.

Prior to the war many women were taking part in the Suffragette movement, where they were fighting for women to have the right to vote. This was mostly peaceful, but went to a whole new level in 1905 when two women interrupted a political...