This country's national motto during the 1920s could have been "out with the old and in with the new!" That sentiment especially applied to young women. After winning the right to vote in 1920, women set out to test their new emancipation by becoming thoroughly modern. They wore shorter dresses, smoked cigarettes, and bobbed their hair...all things "good girls" never did a few years earlier. To young minds, the times were all about flappers, sheiks (boy friends), bathtub gin, and dancing to hot music. Everything was hotsy-totsy!