This is an entertaining, well-researched and charmingly illustrated dissection of the 1920s flapper, who flouted conventions and epitomized the naughtiness of the Jazz Age as she "bobbed her hair, ...

A look ahead at what the denizens of 'Downton Abbey' will face when the new season enters the tumultuous Roaring Twenties. No more corsets! By Elizabeth Snead Maggie Smith Elizabeth McGovern Downton ...

BBC set an episode of Downton Abbey during 1925. The producers put a special effort toward the use of authentic costumes. The same styles, worn by my mother’s friends, show up in her scrapbook. Mother ...

Judith Mackrell’s “Flappers” is a juicy, energetic exploration of six dazzling iconoclasts who all flared to fame in the Roaring ‘20s. Unlike recent books such as Simon Winchester’s “The Professor and ...

Look up flapper online and you'll see Merriam-Webster's definition of "a young woman in the 1920s who dressed and behaved in a way that was considered very modern." That’s dictionary-speak for the ...

Last year, "The Rite of Spring"—perhaps the most primal creative act of the 20th century—turned 100. A strange work with no discernible precedent, the ballet put before Paris a series of pagan rituals ...