Tuesday, June 11, 2013

The Flapper

Sender: Anna
I was not informed about the lady on the card. Is she a Russian movie actress? In any event, she has movie star looks and is dressed like "Flappers" in the 1920's. 

From Wikipedia: "Flappers were a "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behaviour. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms. Flappers had their origins in the liberal period of the Roaring Twenties, the social, political turbulence and increased transatlantic cultural exchange that followed the end of World War I, as well as the export of American jazz culture to Europe."


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