New short haircuts announced the wearers’ break from tradition and boosted the hairdressing industry Emily Spivack On May 1, 1920, the Saturday Evening Post published F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Bernice ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. The flapper was always easy to spot during her heyday in the ’20s. She cut her hair, shortened her skirts and ...

After World War I, America found its happy place again and cooked up the nearly decade-long party known as the “Roaring Twenties.” Key ingredients were Prohibition booze, jazz, speakeasies, and ...

MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI -- What do the effect television has had on presidential campaigns, the revolution of America’s eating habits caused by McDonald’s and 1920s-era Flappers have in common? They all ...

For most, the “flapper” evokes images of fingercurled bobs, drop-waisted dresses, and endless Charlestoning, like a scene from Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby on continuous repeat. She’s the spirit of ...

Have a look at the paintings of Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger and other Cubist painters whose work included hard, geometric forms and visible lines. As these artists were working in ...

This summer promised to be the “summer of Gatsby” and when that fizzled out, we still had the opportunity to revisit the punk era at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Punk: Chaos to Couture” show.