“(…) the New Woman of the 1920s boldly asserted her right to dance, drink, smoke, and date—to work her own property, to live free of the strictures that governed her mother’s generation. (…) She flouted Victorian-era conventions and scandalized her… — Joshua Zeitz Copy Share Image
“(…) the New Woman of the 1920s boldly asserted her right to dance, drink, smoke, and date—to work her own property, to live free… — Joshua Zeitz Copy Share Image
“(...)"Flapper"— the notorious character type who bobbed her hair, smoked cigarettes, drank gin, sported short skirts, and passed her evenings in steamy jazz clubs,… — Joshua Zeitz Copy Share Image
“Smaller families also created a narrower age gap between first- and last-born children; this trend, in turn, meant that children shared more in common… — Joshua Zeitz Copy Share Image
“We are our own sculptors...Who can deny that passion and unkind thoughts show on the lines and expressions of our faces...young people seldom have… — Joshua Zeitz Copy Share Image
“A study of fifty women conducted in 1887 revealed that the corset forcibly contracted their waists by anywhere between two and a half and… — Joshua Zeitz Copy Share Image
