The six subjects of Judith Mackrell’s new group biography, Flappers, were notorious celebrities in the 1920s, though mostly ... her quite well known in the art world (though she would be largely ...

Lost Girls is an illuminating history of the iconic flapper as she evolved from a problem to a temptation, and finally, in the 1920s and beyond, to an aspiration. Unlike their mothers and ...

How did 1920s fashion help to make the Roaring Twenties roar? Bernice had bobbed her hair; French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen was fueling the sportif craze; the taste for all things Art Deco ...

Judith Mackrell’s “Flappers” is a juicy ... and bangled persona cropped up in countless works of art, including three 1920s novels by Aldous Huxley after their brief affair.

The art movements in Paris and ... dropped-waisted dresses by the mid- to late 1920s, but in the United States, the style was increasing in popularity. In Flapper Jane, an article in the September ...

The starting pieces of the 1920s collection ... The exhibit showcasing these pieces, "Fabulous Flappers: Fashion from the Ellie Laubner Collection,” opens Sunday and runs through April 14 ...

She lives in an apartment in a typical American city in the 1920s ... Museum of Fine and Decorative Art. And that backstory guides you through a period of the flapper girl and the economic ...

With the war over and the 1920s on the horizon, the autonomous modern woman was born. There was a term for her: flapper.

The Art Deco style of the time was defined ... Of the many fashion trends that came out of the 1920s, it is the flapper dress that continues to reign supreme. The style, named after the women ...

How did 1920s fashion help to make the Roaring Twenties roar? Bernice had bobbed her hair; French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen was fuelling the sportif craze; the taste for all things art deco carried ...