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Fass, Paula S. (2007) The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s. 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-502492-0; Gourley, Kathleen (2007) Flappers and the New American Woman: Perceptions of Women from 1918 Through the 1920s (Images and or of Women in the Twentieth Century). ISBN 978-0-8225-6060-9
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.
The Flapper is a 1920 American silent comedy film starring Olive Thomas. Directed by Alan Crosland , the film was the first in the United States to portray the " flapper " lifestyle, which became a cultural craze or fad in the 1920s.
Louise Brooks styling a "shingle" bob cut in 1929 bob cut. Main article: Bob cut. There were various bob haircuts, but the most common involved cutting both the bangs and back in a straight line, typically with the back shorter and off the neck i.e. shingle bob; e.g. Most flappers had their hair bobbed [41] bohunk. Main article: List of ethnic ...
Bellas Hess and Company advertise detail, 1920 In the early 1920s, some women chose not to bob their hair, so they pinned it up to look shorter. Mlle Cayet, Queen of Parisian Carnival, 1922 Between 1922 and 1923, the waistline boot dropped to the hips. The 1920s classic tubular fashion was born.
The work appeared in the September 1920 short story collection Flappers and Philosophers published by Charles Scribner's Sons. [ 5 ] Fitzgerald's short story follows the plight of a mixed-race Native American girl named Bernice from rural Eau Claire, Wisconsin , who visits her beautiful and sophisticated white cousin Marjorie in the city ...
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Tiller Girls posing on a ship, c. mid-late 1920s. The Tiller Girls were among the most popular dance troupes of the 1890s, first formed by John Tiller in Manchester, England, in 1889. In theatre Tiller had noticed the overall effect of a chorus of dancers was often spoiled by lack of discipline. Tiller found that by linking arms the dancers ...