The Garden Valley Flappers from Tyler Senior Center take the floor for a performance Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, at Wesley House Assisted Living Center in Tyler. Andrew D. Brosig/Tyler Morning Telegraph ...

As 2025, the centennial year of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, comes to a close, let's examine the origins of a term for a signature figure of the 1920s — "flapper." A young, independent ...

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 ...

Fashion has come a long way in the last 100 years, beginning with the liberated clothing choices of 1920s flapper girls who could newly vote, loved to dance and were entering a booming post-war ...

From glittering beaded flapper dresses to silky pantsuits meant for entertaining at home, a new exhibit celebrates a time when women bobbed their hair, ventured out to speak-easies and dared to ...

The wild women of 1920s dance didn't just get everyone doing the Charleston and the Grizzly Bear. Stars like Josephine Baker and Tallulah Bankhead also played a pivotal role in women's emancipation In ...

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 ...