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Now, fashion always reflecting the attitudes of the times decided that the body should no longer be imprisoned by a confining corsette & layers of clothing. So in the name of equality wastlines were relaxed, hemlines went up, & hair was bobbed.. .breaking out of her cocoon like a shimmering butterfly., the new woman was bom! FLAPPERS Flappers like these personified the roaring 20?╟╓s. But these changing times also produced another type of woman. They were predatory & mysterious. They were known as ....Vamps! 1940?╟╓s SPEECH 1 Wasn?╟╓t that beautiful?!! That number featured our wonderful adagio team________ Now we?╟╓ve seen the corseted ladies from the 1900?╟╓s, those flappers & vamps of the 1920?╟╓s, & the glamour queens from the 1930?╟╓s Hollywood musicals. But in the next decade world events had a profound effect on the female gender. As the men joined the armed services, the little homemakers left their kitchens to take over factory jobs. On the music scene there was an invasion of infectious Latin rhythms which added to the growing popularity of the 1940?╟╓s Big Band sound. Every Cool Cat was swinging and on the prowl. 1940?╟╓Speech 11 (after Mambo) Luckily that great 40?╟╓s sound is exciting a brand new generation today. Now this was also the decade in which another tradition was bom that is still carried on today. Soldiers, jocks, college boys, in fact, men from all walks of life began tearing pictures of pretty girls in provocative poses out of magazines and pinning them upon their walls and lockers ~ and it was the debut of the ?╟úPin Up?╟Ñ. INTRO SPEECH TO THE STRIPTEASE Like the cool jazz sound of the times the ladies of the 1950?╟╓s were stylish, sophisticated, & sometimes so aloof they seemed unreal... 1960?╟╓S & 1970?╟╓S SPEECH In the 60?╟╓s & 70?╟╓s events took place that would shake the very foundations of society. For the first time ever there was a world wide youth revolution. Existing values & lines of separation were being questioned. The new concepts of free love & unisex gave