Flapper - Blog Posts
it’s sort of funny that the current cultural idea of the flapper dates not from the 1920s, but the 1950s when costume designers took the radical, gender-fluid, sexual, sexually liberated ideas and fashions of the 20s and made them sexy. as in sexual objectifying.
because 1950s and fuck female agency.
My flapper dress came! I’m hosting a murder mystery with some friends as a last big social thing before my surgery, and I love this dress so MUCH! I haven’t been able to stop singing Great Gatsby songs! On another note, my character is the very flirtatious girl and I think it’s so funny because I’m not like that at all! And the guy flirtatious character is my cousin, so that’s kinda awkward lol!
March, 1925 Cover of "Fashionable Dress" magazine. From Art Deco, FB.
Forever Muse™
1920s ladies: louise brooks as lulu in pandora's box (1929)
1928 c. Illustration by Jeanne Mammen. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.
We can thank both Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker and the eternally iconic Louise Brooks for my current 1920s flapper hairstyle
Elizabeth Debicki in The Great Gatsby (2013)
FLAPPER FANNY SAYS, by Anericn cartoonist, Ethel Hays (1892-1989).