Robe de style
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The robe de style describes a style of dress popular in the 1920s as an alternative to the straight-cut chemise dress.
A robe de style dress by couturier Jeanne Lanvin, c. 1926–27
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.