They danced, they drank smuggled booze, and they rewrote the rules of womanhood. The flappers of the Roaring Twenties weren’t ...

Judith Mackrell’s “Flappers” is a juicy, energetic exploration of six dazzling iconoclasts who all flared to fame in the Roaring ‘20s. Unlike recent books such as Simon Winchester’s “The Professor and ...

The bob hairstyle has been through a lot. As the butt of a joke, a symbol of female liberation, and a marker of societal ...

Last year, "The Rite of Spring"—perhaps the most primal creative act of the 20th century—turned 100. A strange work with no discernible precedent, the ballet put before Paris a series of pagan rituals ...

A century ago the Evening Tribune in San Diego marked the coming of the winter season by editorializing on a new fashion trend — short skirts. After the first World War and during the early 1920s, ...

Look up flapper online and you'll see Merriam-Webster's definition of "a young woman in the 1920s who dressed and behaved in a way that was considered very modern." That’s dictionary-speak for the ...

A look ahead at what the denizens of 'Downton Abbey' will face when the new season enters the tumultuous Roaring Twenties. No more corsets! By Elizabeth Snead Maggie Smith Elizabeth McGovern Downton ...