Along with the economic and political changes, socially women were exploring. The new trend, flappers, were making their way to the scene. Flappers were becoming the new “modern woman”. Challenging the conventional standards of women, they openly spoke about sex, drank, smoked in public, which used to be reserved for men only ("Flappers"). In addition, their look differed from that of the average Victorian woman. Short bobs, small skirts, and low cut tops were becoming increasingly popular in society ("The Roaring Twenties"). Clara Bow, one of Hollywood’s “It” girls perfectly captured the flapper image. The age of the flapper was meant to demonstrate the woman’s independence, that men weren’t a necessity in a girl’s life. A quote by Colleen Moore (a silent film actress) classified flapper style, “They were smart and sophisticated, with an air of independence about them, and so casual about their looks and clothes and manners as to be almost slapdash. I don't know if I realized as soon as I began seeing them that they represented the wave of the future, but I do know I was drawn to them. I shared their restlessness, understood their determination to free themselves of the Victorian shackles of the pre-World War I era and find out for themselves what life was all about.” This quote demonstrated the freedom, independence, and persuasiveness of the era.