flapper
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Natwick initially designed Betty as a dog’s head on the curvaceous figure of a woman and modeled her flapper hairdo on Kane’s own coif.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Fans dressed in approximations of her floaty ballgowns and 1920s flapper dresses, hollering lyrics like mantras.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
Now, suddenly, he was handed a microphone and enlisted as a simultaneous translator for Karel Lamač’s uproarious Jazz Age comedy about a proper Viennese girl who goes wild as a flapper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
Underneath, dresses of scalloped sequins and draped fringe recall flapper looks with contemporary discipline.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
I’d been afraid that maybe she had turned into a flapper with spit curls and spike heels and she might not like me.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
To replicate the columnar formations of birds, in which they line up one directly behind the other, the researchers created mechanized flappers that act like birds' wings.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024
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
Three illustrated jokes dealing with the Easter costumes of Avenue A flappers.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2019
At one point, the dancers appeared dressed as flappers, twirling wildly to jazzy music.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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