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1920s Petting Parties!!

May 30, 2015 by Karen Filed Under: History Leave a Comment

1920s Petting Parties!!

The NPR History Department recently posted an article about petting parties of the 1920s. Have you ever heard of such a thing? These two couples look like a lot of fun! This generation was poised to break free from their parent’s generation and let loose the uptight morals and experiment. I don’t think we ever went back; except maybe in the 50s for a brief time until Elvis came along and “ruined” that generation too!  😉 The photo above is 2 flapper women, with their dates, from Chicago, circa 1928.

I think my favorite paragraph is this one:

Speaking to 1,500 students at Wellesley College in 1921, Mrs. Augustus Trowbridge — the wife of a Princeton professor — railed against “the vulgarity and revolting badness of petting parties.” She said that the loose-moraled gatherings — along with jazz music, unchaperoned dancing and lipstick — were symptomatic of a decadent society, the Coshocton, Ohio, Tribune reported on Jan. 13.

Whew! Times sure have changed, haven’t they? Jazz, dancing, and lipstick were the ruin of many a woman I guess. I would have been in trouble especially since I’m addicted to lipstick. The young women at these parties were seen as getting out of hand. What about the behavior of the men? I guess this was normal for them but not in “polite” society.

I feel like these parties were only happening in the city and not in the rural areas but I also don’t think much changed in later generations. We’ve all been to make-out parties and played Spin The Bottle and Truth or Dare. Youngsters will be youngsters.

The comments on this NPR post are hilarious. You should read them.

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Hey y'all! I'm Karen, a Gulf Coast of Florida based purveyor of Southern sass. I'm an Indiana Jones & Anthony Bourdain wannabe. I'm introverted and usually found with my nose in a book and pen/pencil in hand. I'm addicted to yoga, lip gloss, dumplings, noodles, and have an intense love for Scotland and Paris. I work in a library but my side hustle is teaching about safer skincare and cleaner cosmetics. It's been said I'm a little bit country and a little bit rock 'n roll. Read More…

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