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Origin of 1920s term triggers flapdoodle

As 2025, the centennial year of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, comes to a close, let's examine the origins of a ...
They danced, they drank smuggled booze, and they rewrote the rules of womanhood. The flappers of the Roaring Twenties weren’t just following a fashion trend — they were the OG rule-breakers. With ...
The 1920s were a period of significant social transformation. After WWI, society was ready for something new, and young women ...
After World War I, America found its happy place again and cooked up the nearly decade-long party known as the “Roaring Twenties.” Key ingredients were Prohibition booze, jazz, speakeasies, and ...
The hemline of a satin wedding dress rises saucily in the front and dips in the back in a style popular in the 1920s. The matching veil stretches 10 feet, with two full feet of frothy lace. The gown, ...
Carefree, reckless, flappers seemed to enjoy living on the edge, like these atop Chicago’s Sherman Hotel. George Rinhart / Corbis via Getty Images She was the sexy ingénue, spending evenings in jazz ...