Carefree, reckless, flappers seemed to enjoy living on the edge, like these atop Chicago’s Sherman Hotel. George Rinhart / Corbis via Getty Images She was the sexy ingénue, spending evenings in jazz ...

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‘Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation,’ by Judith Mackrell. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. For most, the ‘flapper’ evokes images of fingercurled bobs, drop-waisted dresses, and endless ...

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 ...

For most, the “flapper” evokes images of fingercurled bobs, drop-waisted dresses, and endless Charlestoning, like a scene from Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby on continuous repeat. She’s the spirit of ...