Comments on: The Rise of the Flapper

By: jayna

jayna — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:39:41 +0000

Flapper wedding dress? Now there’s an oxymoron. Freedom to… do the laundry, scrub the bathroom, and uh, all that other stuff for the next fifty years… woo-woo!

By: Creative Times

Creative Times — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:19:56 +0000

My grandmother, Matilda Linn, was a flapper. She told me that origin of the term “flapper” came from the trend of women wearing men’s rubber boots and letting the buckles go unbuckled. When the women wore this style, the unbuckled buckles made a flapping sound as they walked.

By: snazzyjas

snazzyjas — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:26:18 +0000

fun article. Does anyone think that we may have a similar role in today’s culture? Would hipsters be the closest thing? Just a thought.

By: Miss Nightingale

Miss Nightingale — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:51:58 +0000

Great article – incredibly interesting and I like the way you so neatly explain the correlation between the fashions of the era / social barriers & previously long-held taboos being broken down. Great work!

(Also incredibly inspirational. I am feeling the urge to do on of my Etsy treasuries themed around the flapper gals…)

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:51:43 +0000

Thanks, Chris! Fixed.

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:28:09 +0000

My mothers mother (the only grandparent I knew) was a flapper – I have a photo of her in her flapper wedding dress hanging in my hall, she has a kind of sad half smile in the picture and when I knew her she was a sad old lady. Her and my mom (her only offspring) didn’t get along too well, she’s kind of a sad memory for me. The women in these pictures are beautiful. This era fascinates me. The music is great too.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:37:52 +0000

Nice article, but you mean they flouted convention, not flaunted it.

By: Sugarjonze

Sugarjonze — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:36:42 +0000

And of course, American women got the right to vote in 1920.

Great article and photos!

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:59:11 +0000

Sometimes jokes are so OLD they go over your head. When I was a radio announcer, I would sometimes do the news under the name Miss Information, or the traffic report as Miss Direction.

By: odds 'n ends

odds 'n ends — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:13:19 +0000

Aw c’mon. miscellania.