Where’d they get the hair from, and how did they get it trimmed? The stories are the same, but the method has changed. Flappers have long had a love of fashion, and their hair styles are just as likely to be inspired by Paris- and Paris-ness as they are to have been inspired by their …
Who paid for the fabric? Why was the dress made? Who wore it when she danced the ballroom? A great many questions are answered in this play about an aspiring dancer in her teen years. She’s in a relationship, but is he getting any? Has her new dance style changed the music they play in …
The one by which a woman should always be clothed. The one that, when the wind blew in, a woman should have kept in her lap to put the warmth into her breast. That one from whose hand one should hold one’s purse (as in this picture) when the wind blew. It has been said …
Men in the 1920s didn’t show up to work with shirts that read ‘WOMEN’ with their initials. They had to stand in line, get into rooms, and wait for clothes to be washed. And if a man did manage to put his name on a shirt – with “S.S.,” “N.T.,” or “W.T.” or “T.M.” – …
Wearing jewelry was a bit harder to define than a lot of people are willing too. One flapper in New York said, “My jewelry was everything I could ever want to find.” It was anything that made the wearer appear to be in a hurry or that made them appear to be busy. Like how …
Yeah, it was very long. This was back when most boys wore white tights. We also wore tights when it was a school dress code. Advertisement This is one of those dress codes where it is “You’re on your own.” It’s not like it’s really, for example, in the 1950s when girls, like, wore knee-high …
Was it black or white? “There’s only one answer to the question: they were black,” he said, laughing. Frazier, an expert on the period, said he believes the woman’s foot has been recovered, possibly at the scene. But what about the black or white shoe she found? “I don’t think they could have been the …
“Pets were not accepted at these parties but they were popular in their own right,” he said. “They were basically people who were socializing with other people and their relationships, whether it was friends or family members or their acquaintances, that had to be preserved if they were not to be eliminated.” The party atmosphere …
Is it really the only woman? It would be nice to have an answer on the second or third page before the next big event. I had the same struggle with the first page of my book, about which I was told it didn’t like me. As a child I had a crush on a …
You get a whole lot of options for that. There are even a variety of styles, materials and colors to go with most flappers – from lace and tulle to embroidered silk chiffon dresses. The U.S. economy gained 4,400 jobs in October — a modest increase that economists say is unlikely to affect the government’s …