The 1920s were a decade of explosive change, and at the heart of this cultural revolution were the flappers. Emerging from the shadow of World War I and fueled by the victory of the women’s suffrage ...

The six subjects of Judith Mackrell’s new group biography, Flappers, were notorious celebrities in the 1920s, though mostly forgotten today, which is as good a reason as any to pick up the book and ...

Some trends come and go, but flappers stayed. These fearless women turned the Roaring Twenties into a cultural firestorm. They didn’t wait for permission to live freely. Let’s go back in time and look ...

In the 1920s, some women's lives changed radically due to the introduction of new rights and jobs. The 19th Amendment was ratified in August 1920, and some women voted in the November 1920 election.

This is an entertaining, well-researched and charmingly illustrated dissection of the 1920s flapper, who flouted conventions and epitomized the naughtiness of the Jazz Age as she "bobbed her hair, ...

When you think about the 1920s, what comes to mind? It might be prohibition or mobsters, but regardless the era is now associated with partying, decadence, and a laissez-faire attitude. And for that, ...

Fashion has come a long way in the last 100 years, beginning with the liberated clothing choices of 1920s flapper girls who could newly vote, loved to dance and were entering a booming post-war ...

Bobbing their hair, smoking in public, and going on unchaperoned dates weren’t the only ways in which liberated women of the 1920s were acting like men. They also were binding their chests, “because ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the 1920s, many women became more comfortable in their skin. But the facts of life remained in short supply. George Grantham ...

Women’s legs have never received so much attention as they did in the 1920s! Flapper styles exposed the calves with short dresses that ranged from mid-calf to just below the knee. At our Jazz Age Lawn ...