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2. Flapper - Wikipedia

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   Flappers were a subculture of young Western women prominent after the First World War and through the 1920s who wore short skirts (knee height was considered short during that period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for prevailing codes of decent behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup ...

3. 1920s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   1920s in Western fashion. Appearance. Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford on board the SS Lapland in their honeymoon, 1920. A drawing picturing French women's fashion, c.1921. Typical fashion in California, 1925. Tennis player, Australia, 1924. Western fashion in the 1920s underwent a modernization. Women's fashion continued to evolve ...

4. Joan Crawford - Wikipedia

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   The role established her as a symbol of modern 1920s-style femininity who rivaled Clara Bow, the original It girl, and Hollywood's foremost flapper. A stream of hits followed Our Dancing Daughters , including two more flapper-themed movies, in which Crawford embodied for her legion of fans (many of whom were women) an idealized vision of the ...

5. Betty Boop - Wikipedia

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   Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character designed by Grim Natwick at the request of Dave Fleischer. [a][6][7][8] She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She was featured in 90 theatrical cartoons between 1930 and 1939. [9]

6. Women's suffrage and Western women's fashion through the ...

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   The popularisation of the flapper style was due to film, radio and the media. Adrian was a popular designer for Metro-Goldyn-Mayer during the 1920s-1930s, dressing silent film actresses including Clara Bow, Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford: which influenced American women's fashion. [11]

7. Clara Bow - Wikipedia

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   Clara Gordon Bow (/ boʊ /; July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to " talkies " in 1929. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It brought her global fame and the nickname " The It Girl ". [ 1 ]