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 ...

Drawing, Textile Design: Party Ashtray, 1930–31; Designed by Donald Deskey (American, 1894–1989); White, blue, and orange pastel on black wove paper Matt Flynn ...

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 ...

In 1923, “a fourteen-year old from Chicago,” Judith Mackrell notes in her new multi-biography-cum-sociohistorical-examination, “tried to gas herself because ‘other girls in her class rolled their ...

The precise etymology of "flapper", as applied to a young woman of the Jazz Age, is a bit fuzzy. Most people seem to agree that it developed from the image of a baby bird leaving the parental nest and ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. The flapper was always easy to spot during her heyday in the ’20s. She cut her hair, shortened her skirts and ...

Judith Mackrell’s “Flappers” is a juicy, energetic exploration of six dazzling iconoclasts who all flared to fame in the Roaring ‘20s. Unlike recent books such as Simon Winchester’s “The Professor and ...

Judith Mackrell's study of great women of the jazz age shows them to have been a vital, subversive force Despite the absence of jazz in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby, its release is ...