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
Sam Gallagher and Yash Thakkar, both English majors, dub her Jordan—after the flapper and semipro golfer in “The Great Gatsby”—when they learn that she gave up a golf scholarship her freshman year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Underneath, dresses of scalloped sequins and draped fringe recall flapper looks with contemporary discipline.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
Even in the 1920s, there were high-profile flapper divorces and, everybody's like, oh my God, society is crumbling.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2024
“So you wasn’t gonna say a word. You was gonna leave your big flapper shut and leave me do the talkin’.
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
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
In what ways were flappers a reaction to World War I?
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Lurking behind the era’s glitzy flappers and Wall Street speculators was a collective trauma of both the war and the pandemic.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2022
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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