flapper

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

Nicks strolled in later, fresh from her stint at Clementine’s and still donning her flapper costume.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025

In the hour before Pippi’s party, children scoured the room on a scavenger hunt to find nine Pippis, donning disguises from a Dodgers jersey to a 1920s flapper dress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025

She put a bowl on my head, cut off all the hair beneath it, and told me I looked like a flapper.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

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

I think flappers and waifs could feel the impending doom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022

Go play with the autos and the flappers.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole