The 1920s were a decade of explosive change, and at the heart of this cultural revolution were the flappers. Emerging from the shadow of World War I and fueled by the victory of the women’s suffrage ...

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 ...

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 six subjects of Judith Mackrell’s new group biography, Flappers, were notorious celebrities in the 1920s, though mostly forgotten today, which is as good a reason as any to pick up the book and ...

Asked what women wore during the 1920s, most people would picture the same thing: a drop-waisted dress, low-heeled Mary Jane shoes, a long string of pearls and a headband decorated with a diadem and a ...

“Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation,” by Judith Mackrell. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. For most, the “flapper” evokes images of bobs, drop-waisted dresses, and endless Charlestoning, like a ...

Music from the Roaring Twenties plays as The Garden Valley Flappers from Tyler Senior Center begin to dance The Charleston, kicking, spinning and wiggling, turning their knees inward and kicking out ...

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 ...