flapper
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Fans dressed in approximations of her floaty ballgowns and 1920s flapper dresses, hollering lyrics like mantras.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
“It,” employed in this way, first appeared in a 1927 novella by Elinor Glyn, which became a silent film starring the red-haired flapper Clara Bow, arguably history’s first “It Girl.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Nicks strolled in later, fresh from her stint at Clementine’s and still donning her flapper costume.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025
Underneath, dresses of scalloped sequins and draped fringe recall flapper looks with contemporary discipline.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
The bride wore a white-fringed flapper dress and black spiked boots.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
Next steps from the robotics perspective will include working with material scientists to equip the flappers with muscle-like materials.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2023
I think flappers and waifs could feel the impending doom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
The evening started with cocktails and moved to a tent on the museum’s back lawn; many patrons were dressed as flappers to fit the Roaring Twenties theme.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2021
Just as fascinating is his description of the role that Jazz Age flappers played in reforming gendered dress codes that had held women in thrall to corsets and “cocoons of tulle and taffeta.”
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2021
The machine men tumbled down the stairs, and Leo forced them to jitterbug like 1920s flappers.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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