As 2025, the centennial year of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, comes to a close, let's examine the origins of a term for a signature figure of the 1920s — "flapper." A young, independent ...

They danced, they drank smuggled booze, and they rewrote the rules of womanhood. The flappers of the Roaring Twenties weren’t just following a fashion trend — they were the OG rule-breakers. With ...

The Garden Valley Flappers from Tyler Senior Center take the floor for a performance Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, at Wesley House Assisted Living Center in Tyler. Andrew D. Brosig/Tyler Morning Telegraph ...

From glittering beaded flapper dresses to silky pantsuits meant for entertaining at home, a new exhibit celebrates a time when women bobbed their hair, ventured out to speak-easies and dared to ...

Fashion has come a long way in the last 100 years, beginning with the liberated clothing choices of 1920s flapper girls who could newly vote, loved to dance and were entering a booming post-war ...