Excerpts from only yesturday (teenagers)

Part 1:
- women were starting to wear less clothes
- flappers wore thin dresses; sleeveless
- abandoning corsetts
- nice girls smoking cigarettes
- openly drinking
- girls joyriding with men at 4 in the morning

Nowadays:
- drugs
- drinking
- tattoos
- bullying
- texting and driving
- smoking cigarettes
- being out past driving curfew
- dress code

The 1920's and the 21st century have some differences and similarites of how teenagers get in trouble. In the 1920's the laws weren't that strict as they are now. Back then women had to wear a lot more clothes then we do now, they couldn't show much skin. As time went along, the women were starting to wear less clothes. The flappers wore women that were starting to unlady like and not following rules, but they were the women that wore thin dresses to sleeveless ones. The women also had to wear corsetts which were a type of clothing that the women had to wear to keep their fat and body stiff and looking perfessional. The men back then didn't like when the women wore those, so the women were abandoning them. The young girls were starting to smoke cigarettes and drinking openly just so they could look "cool" infront of the guys. Like i said before the laws weren't as stict as they are now, so the parents of these teenagers didn't worry as much about them. For an example the young girls would be joyriding with men untill four in the morning and the parents wouldn't really care or think twice about it. Nowadays in the 21st century, the laws are more strict and you can pretty much get in trouble for just about anything. Drinking and doing drugs is a big thing that a lot of teenagers still get in trouble for, but the penatly is much worse now. Teenagers want to get tattoos younger and younger every year and you have to get a parent signature if your under the age of 18, so a lot of teenagers go to illegal places. Back then they didn't have the internet and now that we have it, it causes a lot of problems like bullying. They also didnt have a lot of cars back then and now that we do now, we have rules and laws as to driving like if your under the age of 18 you have time limits that u can drive from. If you dont follow the rules you could end up losing your license. Some of the similarites that the 1920's and the 21st century have in common are that they had a dress code were they couldn't show much skin and had to wear corsetts and in school we have to wear shorts that are finger tip length and have to wear 3 finger tip traps. Smoking, drinking, and doing drugs was all in the 1920's and is still contining in the 21st century except its just worse now. In my opinion, I would say that teenagers nowadays are worse behaved because theres a lot more laws and rules to break and teenagers think its "cool" and funny to break them.

Kristalea Beatrice