Songs like "Yes! We Have No Bananas" somehow topping the charts. Of all the things associated with the 1920s, flappers have long served as the most iconic, shimmying, shaking emblem of the Jazz Age.
The 1920s were an age of prosperity and sophistication in the U.S. It was a different time characterized by vibrant culture of jazz music, flappers, and clandestine bootleggers. For those of us ...
The 1920s was an era of flappers, speakeasies and bathtub gin-a time perhaps best characterized not by a sight, but rather by a sound…the sound of jazz. At a time when early American recording ...
A century ago in the United States, the flappers of the 1920s shocked conservative society by cutting their hair, exposing their ankles with raised hemlines, and even wearing pants. Critics ...
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.