How To Use Flapper In A Sentence
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However, I went out on flapperish limb with a ruffled dress in slate grey-blue, which is remarkably flattering if a touch juvenile.
Canada.com Top Stories
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I started with this 6x6 piece for a "Vintage Women" Mixed Media Monday Challenge (I should probably stay away from challenge blogs, I know, I know) - as I had leftover flappers from the 20's cards, it seemed only appropriate.
Monday stuff
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I don't want Pat to be a genius, I want her to be a flapper, because flappers are brave and beautiful.
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The metal buckles had jangled and flapped, which is how the name flapper came about.
Futures Imperfect
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Sweet'n'neat 20s inspired hair and make-up, including short bobs, marcel waves, heavily kohled eyes with long lashes and small dark cupid's bow lips complete the flapper feel.
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Still, if she did not shower these particular scintillating adjectives on her flapper-self, her life proclaimed them.
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We still see remaining an antitypal sketch of a wing adapted for flight in the scaly flapper of the penguin, and limbs first concealed beneath the skin, and then weakly protruding from it, were the necessary gradations before others should be formed fully adapted for locomotion.
On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species
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And the "flappers" and the "knuts" -- they seem never to tire of seeing each other pass and re-pass for a solid hour on end!
Over the Fireside with Silent Friends
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But the flapper was the flapper; and it was the only way ever to see that tomb.
Bunker Bean
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Cocktail parties and distilled spirits became the rage - as glamorous as flappers, swing dancing, and jazz.
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“I was going for a kind of flapperish Lois Lane,” I said.
The Legacy
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‘So,’ I asked, noticing the piano player, the flappers and the antique cars on the road outside, ‘Now that we're at least in our own century, what do we do, now?’
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Alternatively, find your own inspiration from the era: for the girls, red lipstick, exaggerated eyebrows, hair clasps, little cloche hats and lots of flapper-style beads.
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The fitted strapless gown had a beaded bodice with a sweetheart neckline and a full-length tiered skirt fringed with marabou white feathers—a hint of flapper and a whole lot of fun!
My Fair Wedding
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It's flappers dancing the Charleston with abandon.
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In her flapper-age bathing costume, Mayerova dances simultaneously as a machine and a mademoiselle, as an athlete and an advertisement for the modernist revolution.
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He couldn't expect her to ride on the flapper bracket of his Enfield.
THE GOLDEN LION
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The archetypal gay wedding portrait -- a pair of middle-aged women or paunchy men looking uncomfortable in rented outfits worn at the wrong time of day -- is destined to be hung in the same gallery of dated images of social progress alongside snapshots of flappers defiantly puffing cigarettes and Kodachromes of African Americans wearing dashikis.
When You're Desperate
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I could not then conceive the meaning; it seems the minds of these people are so taken up with intense speculations, that they neither can speak, nor attend to the discourses of others, without being roused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and hearing; for which reason those persons who are able to afford it always keep a flapper (the original is climenole) in their family, as one of their domestics, nor ever walk abroad or make visits without him.
Gulliver's Travels
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Upon entering, a charming flapper greets you and beckons you to see the 1920's show.
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The twenties have spawned an image of bathtub gin, speakeasies, flappers, and decadence: in short, The Jazz Age.
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Mr. Jacobs, having ditched his 60's futurist pastiche from last season, had worked like a dog to turn out a brilliant collection of unpornographic, unironic romanticism: flirty tea dresses, Virginia Woolf coats in denim tweed and gorgeous panne velvet flapper frocks.
Marc Jacobs, Circa 2003: Long Hair, Neck Brace & Sweaty (PHOTO)
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I was especially impressed with the male servers and bartenders; most with signature Veuve brand bow ties, ascots or waistcoats; the ladies in crochet knee socks and feathers and variations on flapper wear in between.
The Daily Truffle: Celebrities Turn Out for Veuve Clicquot Inaugural Polo Classic
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The so-called modern girl's agency was largely restricted to new choices of clothing, make-up, and hair style that created a package resembling the get-up of the American flapper.
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Leading this group was a gorgeous blonde flapper dressed in darling scarlet and smoking a cigarette carelessly.
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He couldn't expect her to ride on the flapper bracket of his Enfield.
THE GOLDEN LION
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A flapper had the body of an adolescent boy, not a grown-up woman.
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In 1920s New York City, Professor Ernest Baxter, an expert in all things arcane; Mindy Markus, a scrappy flapper; and Roscoe, a gargoyle from the Bronx, are The Night Owls.
DC Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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Upon entering, a charming flapper greets you and beckons you to see the 1920's show.
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The biggest thing I have repaired is toilet flappers.
Mechanic Fail or no I cannot fix teh washing machinze - SpouseBUZZ
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They utilize instead the services of a "Flapper" to hit them in the face with a bladder full of dried peas when another Laputan wishes to communicate something.
Erica Jong: Lost in Laputa
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There were lab coats, Vegas showgirl outfits, long gowns with full skirts, vampire costumes, and flapper dresses.
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In theater or cabaret, the redheaded "flapper" was a beguiling presence.
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Rudolf wore a nice suit from a fine tailor in town, and Marlene donned a very flappery-looking dress.
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In English there is flapper, in French there is ingénue, and in German there is backfisch.
Chapter 11. American Slang. 1. Its Origin and Nature
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Well, from the moment when the routine of leave for our soldiers was established, such novices, accompanied by damsels (called flappers) often as innocent as themselves, crowded the theatres to the doors.
Heartbreak House
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Moreover, the flapper, independent and rebellious, was both a standardized image and an individualized one, as young women adopted a stance that made them both subjects of the gaze and objects of it.
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When I think of flappers, I picture androgynous gamines in shapeless dresses and waggling beads sipping illegal hooch while the Charleston plays in the background.
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It seems the minds of these people are so taken up with intense speculations, that they neither can speak, nor attend to the discourses of others, without being roused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and hearing; for which reason, those persons who are able to afford it always keep a flapper (the original is climenole) in their family, as one of their domestics; nor ever walk abroad, or make visits, without him.
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
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Go for an outfit loosely inspired by the 1920s, drop-waisted, flapper look, which suits willowy, skinny types like you.
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A flapper and a flirt, she was white, middle-class and Midwestern.
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Was Ruth a modern woman, a young flapper, or a traditional housewife and mother?
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These were the Roaring Twenties and she was a flapper—she played the field shamelessly, a self-admitted cockteaser.
Last Words
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In the late 1920s, the ‘moga,’ or ‘modern girl,’ took elements of style from American flappers as they created their own personae of assertive, public, working women.
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The young birds are called flappers till they can fly, and can be run down easily.
A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
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Isn't there any romance or adventure without having a flapper in it?
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Sliding her dorm key out of the pocket she had sewn onto her swingy black 50's flapper dress, Gabby was about to shove it into the lock when the door swung open on it's own.
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'spiffing' and 'good egg' in my humble, but their use all helps to ensure that there is a slightly dotty, frenetic, flapperish atmosphere which makes these stories so agreeable.
Random Jottings of a Book and Opera Lover
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Dorothy Provine, 75, an actress who played the title outlaw in the film "The Bonnie Parker Story" and was the high-kicking flapper in the 1960s TV series "The Roaring 20's," died April 25 at a hospice near her home in Bremerton, Wash.
Actress Dorothy Provine dies; played Bonnie Parker in film, Pinky Pinkham on TV
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The flapper had to be a good consumer, keeping up with fashion and buying the latest in beauty products.
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Considering this, it is not surprising that the dance's origins can be traced back to the roaring twenties - the time of the flappers and the first Miss America contest.
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At least he didn't crawl back any further and say "flappers" or "mudsills.
Archive 2006-09-01
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The male of the wild dock is called a mallard; and the young ones are called flappers.
The Book of Household Management
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The archetypal gay wedding portrait -- a pair of middle-aged women or paunchy men looking uncomfortable in rented outfits worn at the wrong time of day -- is destined to be hung in the same gallery of dated images of social progress alongside snapshots of flappers defiantly puffing cigarettes and Kodachromes of African Americans wearing dashikis.
When You're Desperate
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But instead I have gone with a more traditional flapper look, tassely little dress, feather boa, long black gloves, cigarette holder, fishnet stockings.
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Mitchell had matured and quieted much by then and had long since left her flapper days behind.
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Following the First World War, in the 1920s and early 1930s, the cocktail party flourished, with flappers and frivolity going hand in hand.
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If you've spent your time in the boardroom telling Donald that Mary should be fired, that she's an emotional bitch who can't keep her mouth shut and her big fat flapper is bringing down the team's morale, do not say that you have respect for her.
Ten Things I've Done That You Probably Haven't
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You then read other letters and you find out he's surrounded by bright young things, flappers.
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But the Charleston didn't hit till 1923, and the word flapper had been used as early as 1920.
Futures Imperfect
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With lots of black and white, they revert to this year's trend of reflecting '50s screen sirens and '20s flappers.
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For smarter looks, little blouses, pleated skirts and twinsets are given a flapper flavour with cloches hats, pearls and dainty shoes.
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She'd had to wear her short, auburn hair flat like a twenties flapper for the play.
LEO: STAGE FRIGHT
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The bushy tail forms the well-known "chowry" or fly-flapper of the plains of India; the bones and dung serve for fuel.
Himalayan Journals — Complete
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The flapper dress echoed the flattened forms and straight seams of the Japanese kimono.
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Ruddy-faced men, bronze-faced men, pale-faced men; young women, girls, matrons and "flappers"; caddies burdened with bags of golf clubs and pockets bulging with cunningly found balls; skillful waiters hurrying here and there with trays on which glasses of various shapes, sizes, and of diversified contents tinkled musically-such was the scene at the
The Golf Course Mystery
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And yet I'm told some o 'your cockered-up fly-flappers carnt' it a 'ole in a pound o' butter, or stand a straight nose-ender without turning faint!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 28, 1892
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By the time flappers showed up in the '20s, opening and closing their knees and swinging their arms in the briefest of outfits, the can-can and the shimmy looked positively quaint.
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Whether the goody-goody Gibson girl or the dancing flapper, the single woman finally had purchasing power.
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However, a very key interneuron in Melibe resides in the pedal ganglion, as is the case in both of the parapodial flappers, Aplysia and Clione, but neither of the dorsal-ventral swimmers.
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Ossaroo saw that the tail was a "chowry," in other words, a fly-flapper, such as is used in the hot countries of India for brushing away flies, mosquitos, and other winged insects.
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
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It was characterized by younger women - "flappers" - openly insisting on the right to have sex before marriage.
Undefined
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Symbolic of the new freedom were the pre-World War I bohemians of New York's Greenwich Village and the sexually precocious young women of the 1920s, the so-called flappers.
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A blonde and two male companions in boaters and bathing suits recreated the 1920s, along with eye-catching flapper girls in neon pink.
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For smarter looks, little blouses, pleated skirts and twinsets are given a flapper flavour with cloches hats, pearls and dainty shoes.
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Mr. Driver and Virginia Kull, who plays his flapperish girlfriend, seem all but weightless by comparison.
Fraud in the Family
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The fourth dressed turned out to be made by the same designer who gave us the dominatrix dress, only this one, in the words of my wife, was "flapperish": a dress to Charleston in, not that anyone does the Charleston anymore, not even at bar mitzvah parties.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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My skin is peachy-tan, and I have ginger hair that is styled into a bob so I look like a flapper.
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She'd had to wear her short, auburn hair flat like a twenties flapper for the play.
LEO: STAGE FRIGHT
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Antonio Calanni/Associated Press ETRO A flapperish chemise with pleats at the hem.
NYT > Home Page
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I knew the last surviving daughter as well and she was a pistol, married eight times, a former flapper from the Twenties.
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I knew the last surviving daughter as well and she was a pistol, married eight times, a former flapper from the Twenties.
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However, the many lineages of gliding animals today, including a host of lizards, squirrels, marsupials, and colugos show no signs of turning into flappers anytime soon.
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The metal buckles had jangled and flapped, which is how the name flapper came about.
Futures Imperfect
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Dorothy Provine, a stunningly beautiful actress who starred as the title outlaw in "The Bonnie Parker Story" (1958) and then as a flapper showgirl in the short-lived TV drama "The Roaring Twenties," died April 25.
Dorothy Provine, Flapper and Outlaw, Dies
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Meminet is an AI that coordinates a system of "flappers" and "skeeters," individual units that continually whisper necessary data into the ears of the "frags.
New Race
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The book contains fascinating chapters on young militants, flappers and bohemian aesthetes, and on street life.
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We still see remaining an antitypal sketch of a wing adapted for flight in the scaly flapper of the penguin, and limbs first concealed beneath the skin, and then weakly protruding from it, were the necessary gradations before others should be formed fully adapted for locomotion. [
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
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Leading this group was a gorgeous blonde flapper dressed in darling scarlet and smoking a cigarette carelessly.
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Apart from that, bring on series three and the Crawley girls in flapper dresses intoning: "Carson, fetch the cocaine!
It's all too easy to hate teens – try a little love instead | Barbara Ellen
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Margaret Mitchell had been a genuine "flapper" - blackballed from the Junior League for a "daring" French apache dance she performed at an Atlanta ball.
News | WM | http://www.starnewsonline.com
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But he did not come on the excursion with us yesterday, although Father would have liked him to; he said he would find it much too dull to spend the day with two "flappers;" that means that we're not grown up enough for him and is a piece of infernal cheek especially as regards Hella.
A Young Girl's Diary
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Considering this, it is not surprising that the dance's origins can be traced back to the roaring twenties - the time of the flappers and the first Miss America contest.
