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 ...

The big picture: The 1920s brought a redefinition in women's roles and ideals, from social mores to fashion. Flappers rejected the corsets — real and metaphorical — of yore, delaying marriage ...

It was Kerrigan who came up with and produced the annual Petaluma Egg Day celebration – a prelude to today’s Butter and Egg ...

Joan Crawford may have been the best example of a flapper for F. Scott Fitzgerald ... A film star from 1920 until her death from tuberculosis in 1926, Barbara La Marr was known as "The Girl ...

Life in the 1920s was defined by many cultural, political, and economic developments. Jazz music and flapper fashion defined the era's sound and look. The Harlem Renaissance brought popularity to ...

Some young women of the 1920s were referred to as flappers. In 1919 womens' skirts were about six inches above ground level, but by 1927 the hems of skirts were up to knee-level. Young women ...

The young women of the 1920s were referred to as flappers. Hollywood films of the period characterised them, and as a result, their behaviour and dress sense was imitated by millions around the world.