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 ...

The flapper, too, can be cruel, and often is so, to other girls. She ought not to be, and, it would seem, does not want to be, for she knows full well from her own experience how slights and ...

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 ...

Courtesy of Kyle Cooper A speakeasy inside the Kirkland Museum displays glassware and other items from the 1920s and 30s as part of the "Vanity & Vice: American Art Deco" exhibit.. Because the ...