They danced, they drank smuggled booze, and they rewrote the rules of womanhood. The flappers of the Roaring Twenties weren’t just following a fashion trend — they were the OG rule-breakers. With ...
The Garden Valley Flappers from Tyler Senior Center take the floor for a performance Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, at Wesley House Assisted Living Center in Tyler. Andrew D. Brosig/Tyler Morning Telegraph ...
As 2025, the centennial year of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, comes to a close, let's examine the origins of a term for a signature figure of the 1920s — "flapper." A young, independent ...
Fashion has come a long way in the last 100 years, beginning with the liberated clothing choices of 1920s flapper girls who could newly vote, loved to dance and were entering a booming post-war ...
When you think about the 1920s, what comes to mind? It might be prohibition or mobsters, but regardless the era is now associated with partying, decadence, and a laissez-faire attitude. And for that, ...
For most, the “flapper” evokes images of fingercurled bobs, drop-waisted dresses, and endless Charlestoning, like a scene from Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby on continuous repeat. She’s the spirit of ...
‘Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation,’ by Judith Mackrell. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. For most, the ‘flapper’ evokes images of fingercurled bobs, drop-waisted dresses, and endless ...
The second decade of the 20th century isn’t called the Roaring Twenties for nothing - a carefree lifestyle, lavish parties and all-night dancing defined this pivotal decade of the Jazz Age. The second ...
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 ...