Ideas 53:59 The Flapper and the Modern Girl * Originally published on February 4, 2020. The iconic flapper of the 1920s marvelled in flouting convention and stirring the pot.

But the original It Girl, as the dictionary acknowledges, was one of the most successful and revolutionary film stars of the silent era, ... Bow became a symbol of the flapper era, ...

Soon, a flapper was any girl or woman who defied convention—girls who balked at being chaperoned, suffragists, women aspiring to a career, and those, as the Boston Globe put it, “expert in the ...

This tin sign, probably made in the 1920s, features an attractive flapper girl. She is enjoying a glass of Hires Root Beer. If you look closely, you can read the tiny word “good” before the ...

Part and parcel with the rebellious flapper mentality, the decision to cut it all off was a liberating reaction to that stodgier time, a cosmetic shift toward androgyny that helped define an era ...