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"1920s fashion & music". 1920s Flapper: Young Women in a Modern World.. "Slang of the 1920s". AACA. Archived from the original on June 18, 2010.. "Flappers and fashion". Rambova. Archived from the original on August 21, 2010 "Thousands of photos of flappers can be viewed at Louise Brooks Fan Club on Facebook". Facebook
Wall flower or dress up [150] dud up Dress up [154] 1920s Dumb Dora Comic strip by Chic Young dumb dora. Main article: Dumb Dora. 1. Stupid, especially a woman [155] 2. Foolish woman often applied to a flapper [156] dummer 1. Thug who robs drunks [157] 2. Thief who robs homes when the occupants are away [157] dumkuff Nutty [150] dump
Jazz music, previously restricted to mainly poor African-Americans, broke out as the musical craze of the 1920s. In the 1920s, American jazz music and motor cars were at the centre of a European subculture which began to break the rules of social etiquette and the class system (See also Swing Kids and Flappers).
The post Vintage-obsessed woman lives every day like it’s the 1920s-1950s appeared first on In The Know. Carly Knight spends her days wearing vintage clothes while surrounded by antiques, and ...
Speakeasy bars in the United States date back to at least the 1880s, but came into prominence in the United States during the Prohibition era (1920–1933, longer in some states). During that time, the sale, manufacture, and transportation ( bootlegging ) of alcoholic beverages was illegal throughout the United States, due to the Eighteenth ...
The law that banned the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol in the US came into force in 1920, but instead of stopping people from drinking, it merely sent them underground. For 13 ...
Cigarette girls in Florida in 1956 Cigarette girl at the Bellmansro restaurant in Sweden, 1940. In Europe and the United States, a cigarette girl was an attractive young woman who sold or provided cigarettes from a tray held by a neck strap, a common casual occupation until supplanted by vending machines in the 1950s, especially at nightclubs, but also at restaurants, bars, casinos, and other ...
Starting on Jan. 17, 1920, Prohibition limited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. Wanting to keep business and keep selling alcohol without getting in trouble ...