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  • Thumbnail for Flapper
    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...
    67 KB (8,621 words) - 05:40, 1 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
    allowing young women to vote would swing the 1929 election to the Labour Party. Rothermere's campaign against the "flapper vote" resounded strongly with...
    106 KB (14,812 words) - 00:55, 16 September 2024
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    was often referred to as the "Flapper Election", because it was the first in which women aged 21–29 had the right to vote (owing to the Representation...
    28 KB (687 words) - 18:27, 16 September 2024
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    manliness. His colourfully worded editorials on subjects such as "the flapper vote" (that is, the extension of suffrage to women under 30) and "modern sex...
    87 KB (11,803 words) - 04:11, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edith Laura Johnston, Lady Luke
    else at the time. Lady Luke was opposed to the ‘Flapper Vote’, which gave women aged 21–29 the right to vote, stating: “I don’t consider that any girl or...
    12 KB (1,194 words) - 22:47, 1 October 2024
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    German-born French mathematician, in Berlin (d. 2014) The so-called "Flapper Vote Bill" passed its second reading in the British House of Commons. The...
    23 KB (2,708 words) - 20:09, 14 August 2024
  • 8pm - Flappers' fresh-faces comedy contest in which the audience votes for their favorite comedians to win cash prizes, gift cards, and Flappers Traditional...
    4 KB (393 words) - 04:53, 25 August 2024
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    Betty Boop (category Flappers)
    featured in comic strips and mass merchandising. A caricature of a Jazz Age flapper, Betty Boop was described in a 1934 court case as "combin[ing] in appearance...
    64 KB (7,128 words) - 19:08, 12 October 2024
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    British authorities to leave the country. The Equal Franchise Bill, or "Flapper Vote Bill", passed its third reading in the British House of Commons. Herbert...
    26 KB (2,976 words) - 03:58, 25 April 2024
  • October 1922. Known as the 'flapper' election because it was the first election in which women aged 21–29 had the right to vote. In the 1951 general election...
    52 KB (1,443 words) - 09:22, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford
    attributed to newly enfranchised young women (referred to derogatorily as "flappers") voting for the opposition Labour party. Throughout his tenure at the Home...
    45 KB (5,303 words) - 00:16, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928
    of the electorate in the 1929 general election, which was termed the "Flapper Election". Reform Acts Timeline of women's suffrage Nineteenth Amendment...
    6 KB (549 words) - 17:16, 10 May 2024
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    launched a publicity campaign and built an image as a nationally known flapper by the end of the 1920s. By the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled MGM colleagues...
    98 KB (10,724 words) - 15:13, 25 September 2024
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    vote, and they felt liberated. Fashion trends became more accessible, masculine, and practical, creating the emergence of "The New Woman". Flappers was...
    40 KB (5,111 words) - 01:33, 19 September 2024
  • Yuka Fujikawa began serialization in the June 2014 issue of Monthly Comic Flapper while three spin-offs were also released. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed...
    97 KB (8,473 words) - 12:52, 14 October 2024
  • Bizen began serialization in Media Factory's manga magazine Monthly Comic Flapper in September 2022. A spin-off light novel, titled Lycoris Recoil: Ordinary...
    94 KB (5,803 words) - 23:30, 13 October 2024
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    Zelda Fitzgerald (category Flappers)
    eye, and she became known in the national press as the first American flapper. Due to their wild antics and incessant partying, she and her husband became...
    127 KB (14,811 words) - 08:36, 12 October 2024
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    the era's social, artistic and cultural dynamism. Jazz blossomed, the flapper redefined the modern look for British and American women, and Art Deco...
    114 KB (14,590 words) - 13:59, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Women's suffrage and Western women's fashion through the early 20th century
    1900s: causing the introduction of masculine silhouettes and the popular Flapper style. Furthermore, the embodiment of The New Woman was introduced, which...
    11 KB (1,265 words) - 02:39, 1 October 2024
  • bold-coloured gowns". The dress is an emerald-green, lush, low-cut gown with a flapper drop back and thin straps alongside a drape wrapped around the upper-hip...
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