#flappers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #flappers, aggregated by home.social.
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Two women in Vienna, Austria, 1920s
https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/2077976/two-women-in-vienna-austria-1920s
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@JohnnyEnzyme
Looks like a c1920 (Missouri or New York?) license plate (which matches the ladies' fashion).
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#HarmReduction #Prohibition #SubstanceUse #PWUD #History #Herstory #Cocaine #Racism
This episode of the Bureau of Lost Culture - "Dope Girls" looks at the early 1900's #Soho #Flappers and the start of the moral war on drugs leading up to and following the first world war.A great series with some tasty episodes (Nom Nom Nom) including episodes on #Psychadelics and #CounterCultrue #Sex #Gender #Disability and of course #Drugs
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7vx4xfNEmAZeKxy7Nlgnov?si=84PyqyM4QOqSyU88QYZIrw
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#HarmReduction #Prohibition #SubstanceUse #PWUD #History #Herstory #Cocaine #Racism
This episode of the Bureau of Lost Culture - "Dope Girls" looks at the early 1900's #Soho #Flappers and the start of the moral war on drugs leading up to and following the first world war.A great series with some tasty episodes (Nom Nom Nom) including episodes on #Psychadelics and #CounterCultrue #Sex #Gender #Disability and of course #Drugs
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7vx4xfNEmAZeKxy7Nlgnov?si=84PyqyM4QOqSyU88QYZIrw
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#HarmReduction #Prohibition #SubstanceUse #PWUD #History #Herstory #Cocaine #Racism
This episode of the Bureau of Lost Culture - "Dope Girls" looks at the early 1900's #Soho #Flappers and the start of the moral war on drugs leading up to and following the first world war.A great series with some tasty episodes (Nom Nom Nom) including episodes on #Psychadelics and #CounterCultrue #Sex #Gender #Disability and of course #Drugs
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7vx4xfNEmAZeKxy7Nlgnov?si=84PyqyM4QOqSyU88QYZIrw
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#HarmReduction #Prohibition #SubstanceUse #PWUD #History #Herstory #Cocaine #Racism
This episode of the Bureau of Lost Culture - "Dope Girls" looks at the early 1900's #Soho #Flappers and the start of the moral war on drugs leading up to and following the first world war.A great series with some tasty episodes (Nom Nom Nom) including episodes on #Psychadelics and #CounterCultrue #Sex #Gender #Disability and of course #Drugs
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7vx4xfNEmAZeKxy7Nlgnov?si=84PyqyM4QOqSyU88QYZIrw
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#HarmReduction #Prohibition #SubstanceUse #PWUD #History #Herstory #Cocaine #Racism
This episode of the Bureau of Lost Culture - "Dope Girls" looks at the early 1900's #Soho #Flappers and the start of the moral war on drugs leading up to and following the first world war.A great series with some tasty episodes (Nom Nom Nom) including episodes on #Psychadelics and #CounterCultrue #Sex #Gender #Disability and of course #Drugs
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7vx4xfNEmAZeKxy7Nlgnov?si=84PyqyM4QOqSyU88QYZIrw
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1924 ad from the S. D. Peacock Company for Peacock Wedding Rings.
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More flapper slang from the 1920s
Sharpshooter - a good dancer and big spender
Spoon - kissing
Strike breaker - a woman who dates her friend’s boyfriend
Tomato - a woman lacking intelligence
Umbrella - a man that any woman can borrow for an evening
Whangdoodle - jazz music -
More flapper slang from the 1920s
Noodle juice - tea
Nutcracker - a policeman’s truncheon
Oil can - an imposter
Out on parole - recently divorced
Potato - lacking Intelligence
Rock of Ages - a woman over thirty -
1920s Flapper Slang
Fire alarm - a divorced woman
Fire bell - a married woman
Fire extinguisher - a chaperone
Forty-niner - a man looking for a rich wife
Handcuff - an engagement ring
Hush money - a young woman’s allowance
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More flapper slang from the 1920s
Billboard - flashy man or woman
Biscuit - a cute, possibly promiscuous, woman
Cake basket - a limousine
Clothesline - local gossip
Corn shredder - a dancer who treads on your feet
Dropping the pilot - getting a divorce
Edisoned - being asked a lot of questions
Eye-opener - marriage
Father Time - a man over thirty🖼️ The Flapper, 1922
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In the new year, I hope to research 1925 in detail. Meanwhile, here’s some general information about the 1920s, starting with some flapper slang.
Airedale - an unfashionable, not with-it man
Alarm clock - a chaperone
Apple sauce - flattery
Banks closed - no petting or kissing
Barneymugging - the opposite of banks closed
The bee’s knees, the cat’s pyjamas, the elephant’s instep - the best -
It's #ZeldaFitzgerald's birthday! The author, artist, socialite & wife of #FScottFitzgerald was #BOTD in 1900!
Her life was both glamorous & tragic. If you want to read her own works, a #biography or #biofiction, about her art or the #RoaringTwenties & #Flappers - we got it!
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Bipolar Brain & Standup (link in bio)
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#bipolarcomedy #bipolardepression #bipolarcomics #bipolarbrain #mentalhealthcomic #mentalhealthcomedy #mentalhealthcomics #standupcomedy #standupcomedian #flappers #flapperscomedyclub -
Bipolar Brain & Standup (link in bio)
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#bipolarcomedy #bipolardepression #bipolarcomics #bipolarbrain #mentalhealthcomic #mentalhealthcomedy #mentalhealthcomics #standupcomedy #standupcomedian #flappers #flapperscomedyclub -
Bipolar Brain & Standup (link in bio)
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#bipolarcomedy #bipolardepression #bipolarcomics #bipolarbrain #mentalhealthcomic #mentalhealthcomedy #mentalhealthcomics #standupcomedy #standupcomedian #flappers #flapperscomedyclub -
Bipolar Brain & Standup (link in bio)
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#bipolarcomedy #bipolardepression #bipolarcomics #bipolarbrain #mentalhealthcomic #mentalhealthcomedy #mentalhealthcomics #standupcomedy #standupcomedian #flappers #flapperscomedyclub -
Bipolar Brain & Standup (link in bio)
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#bipolarcomedy #bipolardepression #bipolarcomics #bipolarbrain #mentalhealthcomic #mentalhealthcomedy #mentalhealthcomics #standupcomedy #standupcomedian #flappers #flapperscomedyclub -
20s Charleston Dance
by JazzyFeet 💃
#charlestondance #1920s #gatsby #flappers
https://youtube.com/shorts/gl7hs1Bm0EQ?si=EhAgCBRAqGyOm13L -
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MY LONGEST STANDUP YET! SATURDAY JULY 22 PACK THEATER TICKETS IN BIO
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#standupcomedy #standupcomedians #standupcomedian #standupcomic #standupcomedyshow #standup #flappersburbank #flapperscomedy #flappers #flapperscomedyclub #mentalhealthcomic #mentalhealthcomedy #mentalhealthcomics #mentalhealthcomedian #bipolarcomic #bipolarcomedy #bipolarcomedian #reel #reelsinstagram #reels #makeba -
MY LONGEST STANDUP YET! SATURDAY JULY 22 PACK THEATER TICKETS IN BIO
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#standupcomedy #standupcomedians #standupcomedian #standupcomic #standupcomedyshow #standup #flappersburbank #flapperscomedy #flappers #flapperscomedyclub #mentalhealthcomic #mentalhealthcomedy #mentalhealthcomics #mentalhealthcomedian #bipolarcomic #bipolarcomedy #bipolarcomedian #reel #reelsinstagram #reels #makeba -
MY LONGEST STANDUP YET! SATURDAY JULY 22 PACK THEATER TICKETS IN BIO
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#standupcomedy #standupcomedians #standupcomedian #standupcomic #standupcomedyshow #standup #flappersburbank #flapperscomedy #flappers #flapperscomedyclub #mentalhealthcomic #mentalhealthcomedy #mentalhealthcomics #mentalhealthcomedian #bipolarcomic #bipolarcomedy #bipolarcomedian #reel #reelsinstagram #reels #makeba -
Newspapers of yore remain a treat, if one that occasionally elicits a "wait, *what*?"
It is kind of entertaining seeing a youth subculture from a hundred years ago draw the same ridiculously hyperbolic ire that the Millennials, However We Currently Define Them, Are Bad industry of the twenty-first century produces.
This seems to have gotten enough traction to appear in several newspapers around the US that week.
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Today I learned what “flapper” means… and that they were guilty of many societal maladies.
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20s Charleston Dance - "Charleston" by Enoch Light
#flappers 😍
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Flappers were central to movies in 1920s Hollywood. Here’s the Life Magazine cover “The Flapper” by Frank Xavier Leyendecker, 2 February 1922.
