Flappers Took the Country by Storm, But Did They Ever Truly Go Away Women of the Roaring Twenties had a lot in common with today’s millennials. Linda Simon. September 2017. Get our newsletter!

In 1923, “a fourteen-year old from Chicago,” Judith Mackrell notes in her new multi-biography-cum-sociohistorical-examination, “tried to gas herself because ‘other girls in her class ...

Women’s dress of the 1910s Limelight Networks The embodiment of that 1920s free spirit was the flapper, who was viewed disdainfully by an older generation as wild, boisterous and disgraceful.