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And Margaret says...
Did you see those flapper girls last Tuesday? And could you believe Ethel's daughter?
"She is, for one thing, a very pretty girl. Beauty is the fashion in 1925. She is, frankly, heavily made up, not to imitate nature, but for an altogether artificial effect - pallor mortis, poisonously scarlet lips, richly ringed eyes - the latter looking not so much debauched (which is the intention) as diabetic. Her walk duplicates the swagger supposed by innocent America to go with the female half of a Paris Apache dance...”
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Bliven, B., (1925, September 9). Flapper Jane,
The new republic
, 65-67.
One of those flapper girls!
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