The flapper silhouette was distinctive, and if you’re a fan of PBS’s “Downton Abbey,” you’ve seen it in full effect this season: angular (basically rectangular), androgynous, slender and ...

Flapper Jane by Bruce Bliven The New Republic September 9, 1925 In the decades before the Roaring Twenties, nice girls didn’t wear ... applying lead to your face wasn’t the best idea!) ...

At Milan Fashion Week, new-age Charleston spirit – or just a heavy sprinkling of embellishment – abounded at Sportmax, Dolce & Gabbana and Emporio Armani – but it was the Brits’ hot take on tubular ...