Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985) was an American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during the prime of her career.
An advertisement for the 1920 silent film comedy The Flapper, with Olive Thomas, before the look of the flapper had started to coalesce. By November 1910, the word was popular enough for A. E. James to begin a series of stories in the London Magazine featuring the misadventures of a pretty fifteen-year-old girl and titled "Her Majesty the ...
Elinor Smith (August 17, 1911 – March 19, 2010) was a pioneering American aviator, [1] once known as "The Flying Flapper of Freeport". [2] She was the first woman test pilot for both Fairchild and Bellanca (now AviaBellanca). [3] She was the youngest licensed pilot in the world at age 16. [4]
Articles relating to flappers and their depictions, a subculture of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts (knee height was considered short during that period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.
The tubular dresses of the 'teens had evolved into a similar silhouette that now sported shorter skirts with pleats, gathers, or slits to allow motion. The most memorable fashion trend of the Roaring Twenties was undoubtedly "the flapper" look. The flapper dress was functional and flattened the bust line rather than accentuating it. [3]
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Lena Waithe promises that good things are coming down the line for fans of The Chi and BET's Twenties. ET spoke with the Emmy winner about the third round of her Rising Voices initiative in ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us