Flapper
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Flappers were a subculture of young Western women prominent after the First World War and through the 1920s who wore knee-length skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain
Actress Louise Brooks (1927)
A flapper on a ship (1929)
Violet Romer in a flapper dress c. 1915
An advertisement for the 1920 silent film comedy The Flapper, with Olive Thomas, before the look of the flapper had started to coalesce.
Joan Crawford
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Joan Crawford was an American actress. She began her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway. Crawford was signed to a motion-picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn
Flapper
…that the term was used. In her final movies, she was seen as the flapper image. Other actresses, such as Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Colleen Moore and Joan Crawford would soon build their careers on the same image, achieving great popularity. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of Crawford: Joan Crawford is doubtless the…
Crawford in 1939
Crawford in 1925
With John Gilbert in the film Four Walls (1928)
Crawford in 1928