A century ago, the prosperous, post-World War I “Jazz Age” drummed out one tumultuous social change after another. On the heels of the long suffragette struggle that led to U.S. women winning the ...

Some young women of the 1920s were referred to as flappers. In 1919 womens' skirts were about six inches above ground level, but by 1927 the hems of skirts were up to knee-level. Young women ...