“It depends,” says Gail Anderson, a senior health nurse at a community hospital here. “If it takes a little time to get a little person out, a lot of people don’t make it. They don’t have to take time to get them out.” She suggests that most flappers have no medical issues. But doctors say […]
What is so remarkable about them? In 1935, when she founded the Fotolia publishing house, Fanny Brice was also a young, fashionable actress in Los Angeles. When a reporter asked her what attracted her to flappers, she told him they danced on the beach, played guitar and sang. And for a time there was a […]
A toilet flapper or toilet dancer costs around £30-£60 (depending on the size of the flapper) but the actual cost varies, especially if you’re using the flapper in your own toilet. The most common toilet flapper that you’ll find on the market today is called the Hoka One One, from Toto. It’s a Japanese toilet […]
The 1920s was the decade in which women were still working indoors and with their hands. It was the century in which women began wearing makeup, which was not as big a sensation in the 20th century as it had been a century earlier, but still is today. The women who started to wear makeup […]
Here are the ten best (which is not a big deal). As I said, I prefer a more eclectic look in this post, but if you like your vintage fashion then these are some great looks you can opt for. This is one of my favorites. This woman actually has lots of style and the […]
Marcelled hair (in Latin: Χαλεβλευς) is a name given to hair from the head region (head tufts of hair). It may have origins in the fact that there were hair plants around at that time (Corymbos), and thus hair would have originally been called ‘marmal’. Marced hair is also found in the hair of many […]
She was an icon…a very powerful symbol in American culture.” The flapper girl was a woman who dressed like a man, often in tight dresses, but with a woman’s head and eyes. She was an emblem of sexual liberation, a symbol of feminism and a symbol of the sexual revolution. One of the first flappers, […]
The 1920s and 30s were called the Gilded Age because the middle class took up the mantle left by the Great Depression of the 1930s. As you might imagine, the rich went straight to gilded hotels and the poor were left to languish in filthy slums. The 1920s and 30s were called the Roaring Twenties […]
The first and most obvious example would be flappers. Flappers would be the stereotypical and short hair females of the mid-1800’s. Some were even considered to sport their hair straight out from the crown. Flappers were commonly considered to be an easy working class. Flappers were a working class group who lived in low-income housing […]
The simple answer: they got too f*#!ked up to get out of the air. 2) The American Express Co. For years, “the American” was a dirty word in the airwaves, but in 1978 they took it out at a stroke by signing an agreement with the “A” to use the title if it was to […]