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    "Attainment Of Flapperhood Is A Big And Serious Undertaking!"

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    Image of VirginiaDentata VirginiaDentata
    08/26/09

    In reply to "Attainment Of Flapperhood Is A Big And Serious Undertaking!"
    @bobella12: Bobella, I think the appropriate terminology here would be, "Baloney. This place is the bee's knees and you're all wet. Now scram!"
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    Image of Elle O. Elle Elle O. Elle
    08/25/09

    In reply to "Attainment Of Flapperhood Is A Big And Serious Undertaking!"
    My great-grandmother considered herself both. She fought for women's rights, protested for the right to vote, but liked to party, smoke, and fuck. There's a photo of her from the 20s on my living room wall, she's totally dressed like a stereotypical flapper. Beads, cloche, fur coat, bobbed haircut. I used to have one of her cloches, she gave it to me when I was ten, wish I still had it. =(
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    Image of gangey gangey
    08/25/09

    In reply to "Attainment Of Flapperhood Is A Big And Serious Undertaking!"
    This makes me think of when Jessie Burns' brother says she went to college for a few semesters and majored in "flapperism" in A River Runs Through It.
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    Image of casi nadie (loves MCC forever) casi nadie (loves MCC forever)
    08/25/09

    In reply to "Attainment Of Flapperhood Is A Big And Serious Undertaking!"

    Has no one thought to post this?!
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    Image of casi nadie (loves MCC forever) casi nadie (loves MCC forever)
    08/25/09

    @casi nadie (loves MCC forever):
    (original link is [www.qwantz.com])

    Scrollover text reads:
    alternate ending
    god: YOU KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF FLAPPERS IN HEAVEN T-REX
    t-rex: Oh man! I would love to chat them up and then totally smooch them!
    god: WELL
    THAT'S NONE OF MY BUSINESS REALLY
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    Image of FashionShowAtLunch FashionShowAtLunch
    08/25/09

    In reply to "Attainment Of Flapperhood Is A Big And Serious Undertaking!"
    I'm pretty sure the flapper style, with the more revealing dresses, popularized female shaving. So... yeah. Not so thankful about that.

    Although, I love flapper style, and if I could emulate any decade in fashion it would be the twenties.
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    08/25/09

    @FashionShowAtLunch: I always heard that shaving became popular during WWII when silk was rationed and women wanted to get the same kind of look without being able to wear stockings.
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    Image of FashionShowAtLunch FashionShowAtLunch
    08/25/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: I make no claims about being 100% accurate about that... I had read this in a women's studies class in college, which was about a million years ago. I'm sure there were a lot of factors involved, but it was definitely during that time period. If I find any links I'll post.
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    Image of Eleanor Ramilly Eleanor Ramilly
    08/25/09

    @FashionShowAtLunch: It was. The twenties is also when women began "slimming"/dieting... for the first time a boyish figure was considered attractive, as opposed to the Victorian hourglass.
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    Image of FashionShowAtLunch FashionShowAtLunch
    08/25/09

    @FashionShowAtLunch: Here's a link to an interesting book about the history of shaving: [books.google.com]
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    Edited by FashionShowAtLunch at 08/25/09 4:32 PM FashionShowAtLunch was starred FashionShowAtLunch was unstarred
    Image of Eleanor Ramilly Eleanor Ramilly
    08/25/09

    @FashionShowAtLunch: The book The Body Project talks about it, too.
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    Edited by Eleanor Ramilly at 08/25/09 4:33 PM Eleanor Ramilly was starred Eleanor Ramilly was unstarred
    Image of FashionShowAtLunch FashionShowAtLunch
    08/25/09

    @Eleanor Ramilly: And it all comes back around... that was my women's studies professor in college!

    Jesus - it really has been a million years if I couldn't even remember the name of my professor or the book she wrote.
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    Image of Eleanor Ramilly Eleanor Ramilly
    08/25/09

    @FashionShowAtLunch: REALLY? Awesome. I think that should be required reading for girls.
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    Image of Miss. Money-Sterling Miss. Money-Sterling
    08/25/09

    @Eleanor Ramilly: There's a photograph of me in that book, but I won't say which one.
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    Image of Eleanor Ramilly Eleanor Ramilly
    08/25/09

    @Miss. Money-Sterling: Oh man. This just keeps getting better. I feel the need to go home and flip through that book again.
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    Image of FashionShowAtLunch FashionShowAtLunch
    08/25/09

    @Eleanor Ramilly: Really. It changed my life, even if I couldn't remember the damn title twelve years later.
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    Edited by FashionShowAtLunch at 08/25/09 6:46 PM FashionShowAtLunch was starred FashionShowAtLunch was unstarred
    Image of clochette clochette
    08/26/09

    @Eleanor Ramilly: YES! This is a really interesting/horrifying period to study in terms of the development of the diet industry as we know and love it today... I highly recommend watching the BBC Supersizers programme (on YouTube) where a couple live/eat the 20s lifestyle for a week... the woman (Sue Perkins, LOVE) has to have a cup of warm water with lemon and 2 laxatives for breakfast, then about 14 stalks of celery for lunch. Mmm. It was the decade that introduced the concept of calories to the wider public.
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    Image of Eleanor Ramilly Eleanor Ramilly
    08/26/09

    @clochette: That sounds fantastic, I plan to watch it. Thanks for the tip! :)
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    Image of rednrowdy rednrowdy
    08/25/09

    In reply to "Attainment Of Flapperhood Is A Big And Serious Undertaking!"
    one person's hard won freedom is another person's cliche.
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    Image of Spaceman Bill Leah Spaceman Bill Leah
    08/25/09

    In reply to "Attainment Of Flapperhood Is A Big And Serious Undertaking!"
    I have no idea what bunny-hugging is but it sounds awesome. Sign me up for Flapperhood.
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    08/25/09


    @Spaceman Bill Leah: I hope it looks like this.
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    Image of lermanzo lermanzo
    08/25/09

    @Spaceman Bill Leah: i may just call someone my snugglepup soon...
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    Image of noisy doll noisy doll
    08/25/09

    @BabyJane: that rabbit is so amazing. I wish I could hug a gigantic living bunny!
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    08/25/09

    @noisy_doll: So do I.
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    Image of pear.shaped.Sara pear.shaped.Sara
    08/25/09

    @noisy_doll: As opposed to hugging a gigantic dead bunny?
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    Image of Grim Reaper of the Forest Grim Reaper of the Forest
    08/25/09

    @pear.shaped.Sara: Dead bunnies don't hug back. So I've heard.
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    Image of Tchotchke Tchotchke
    08/25/09

    In reply to "Attainment Of Flapperhood Is A Big And Serious Undertaking!"
    Were flappers assets or detractions to the feminist movement? I don't know, but what I can share is a little bit about my grandmother. She grew up in a working class neighborhood in Brooklyn. By age 14, she was attending New York's top all-girls' school because her uncommon intellect garnered her a scholarship. From there she went on to finishing school. Upon graduation from college, she rebelled, became a bonafide flapper--going so far as to win Charleston dance competitions and travel to jazz clubs in Harlem (all very rebellious in those days). After that phase in her life, she married my grandfather, a blue-blood, and settled into cozy domesticity and became an artist.

    So, are flappers pro- or anti- feminist? I have no idea, but my grandmother's story and her ability to shift in and out of identities and lifestyles was pretty liberated in my opinion.
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    Image of la.donna.pietra la.donna.pietra
    08/25/09

    In reply to "Attainment Of Flapperhood Is A Big And Serious Undertaking!"
    Keen shoes!
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    Image of AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope
    08/25/09

    In reply to "Attainment Of Flapperhood Is A Big And Serious Undertaking!"
    My grandmother's best friend signed her freshman year high school autograph book with the poem (if I recall correctly):
    "Fox's for the ladies, Bloomie's for the men,
    What would all the flappers do
    Without the 5 and 10?"

    All the same, I think my grandmother and her equally spit-fire young friends probably envied these women a bit. And certainly, Gram achieved some seriously independent shenanigans only a few years later...
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    Image of bananaprincess bananaprincess
    02/24/09

    In reply to Special Bargains
    There's Boyences dress from the Oscars with a jacket in fig 2 Wow and Cheap!
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    Image of zu_zu zu_zu
    02/24/09

    In reply to Special Bargains
    Also shopping in 1928 would seem to solve my shopping problems currently. Some of us did not experience the breast inflation that accompanied the financial one.
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    Image of LBB LBB
    02/24/09

    @zu_zu: I imagine 1920s-style clothes would be easier to make than, say, 50s-style clothes... simpler/flatter lines = fewer seams and darts. If one could find the patterns.
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    Image of Liz11685 Liz11685
    02/24/09

    In reply to Special Bargains
    I would love to know what these prices adjust to with inflation- probably pretty equable to today.


    I did my high school thesis on flapper fashion and feminism, so these advertisements make me so happy. I'm like a 20s addict.

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    Image of LBB LBB
    02/24/09

    @Liz11685: $3.88 = $37.77 per this site.
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    Image of Liz11685 Liz11685
    02/24/09

    @LBB: Awesome, thank you!
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    Image of neurotickitten neurotickitten
    02/24/09

    In reply to Special Bargains
    I wish I lived in the past. But then again, I really don't know how much $1 in 1930 money is worth today, so these deals probably aren't as great as I think.
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    Image of LBB LBB
    02/24/09

    @neurotickitten: According to the Inflation Calculator, what cost $1 in 1930 would cost a bit over $12 today.
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    Image of LBB LBB
    02/24/09

    In reply to Special Bargains
    Holy wow. I love all these, especially the red handkerchief-hem dress for $3.88. Unfortunately, dropped waists usually look awful on me D:
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