flapper

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

“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

Underneath, dresses of scalloped sequins and draped fringe recall flapper looks with contemporary discipline.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2024

That was a flapper thing to do and Andrea was only in eighth grade.

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

In what ways were flappers a reaction to World War I?

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

I think flappers and waifs could feel the impending doom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022

He also capitalized on other novelties, installing a soda fountain that drew the flappers of the 1920s and staging pogo stick demonstrations on the store’s roof.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2021

It was light and floaty, with thin shoulder straps, the type of outfit I imagined flappers with boyish figures wore for a night out at a speakeasy or a dance hall.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu