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The Revolt of the Flappers Redux
By Hattie Beresford   |   September 1, 2026

The 1920s saw the result of worldwide revolutions, not the least of which, according to Frederick Lewis Allen in Only Yesterday, was a revolution in manners and morals. Women, who up until then were considered the guardians of morality, were getting their sexual hangups psychoanalyzed, bobbing their hair, revealing their gams, and wearing rouge. The […]