The 1920s were a period of significant social transformation. After WWI, society was ready for something new, and young women ...
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, ...
“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 ...
A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern By Joshua Zeitz Crown. 338 pp. $24.95 The flapper is as dead and gone as bathtub gin, Texas Guinan, the tin lizzie and ...