tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848073453811666225.post6794547786085572845..comments2024-03-08T04:27:48.022-05:00Comments on A Most Beguiling Accomplishment: The Writer's Guide to Costume: "Flapper"Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03596345781746342408noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848073453811666225.post-55379253696953687692012-04-07T10:14:29.891-04:002012-04-07T10:14:29.891-04:00Great post! My grandmother was a young woman in t...Great post! My grandmother was a young woman in the 1920s and upon seeing her picture (she had a lovely bob) many people say, "Oh, so she was a flapper!" I always laugh...because she was probably not under any definition except perhaps simply being a teenager in the early 1920s :) I hadn't realized how early the term began, but it makes sense!Rowennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09757364614589686606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848073453811666225.post-767685012411668112012-04-04T14:48:25.971-04:002012-04-04T14:48:25.971-04:00I'm happy to make you happy! I'm planning...I'm happy to make you happy! I'm planning to do a second one on 1920s fashion (not sure if it should be a mythbuster post or Writer's Guide, yet) in a bit - I meant to do it earlier, but then remembered that I need to finish a paper. D: It will make a nice diversion for while I'm working, I think.Cassidyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03596345781746342408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848073453811666225.post-75021976771750178792012-04-04T14:31:53.095-04:002012-04-04T14:31:53.095-04:00THANK YOU for posting this! I am so tired of eBay...THANK YOU for posting this! I am so tired of eBay sellers, columnists, fashion "experts", and the general public categorizing all women in the 1920s as flappers. This is a very good article that I may use in my near-fruitless quest to educate people. :)Heidihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06047448565179055542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848073453811666225.post-30404623413415176532012-03-30T18:23:45.635-04:002012-03-30T18:23:45.635-04:00Thank you!
I never even gave the etymology a thou...Thank <i>you</i>!<br /><br />I never even gave the etymology a thought until a classmate did a paper on "The Fabled Flapper" in our <i>Undressing the Fashionable Myth</i> symposium. I was pretty jealous, it was a great topic.<br /><br />It's really amazing how much research one can do on Google Books - although it does get a lot less helpful for anything published after 1925, as that's the public domain cutoff. But I'm so used to it that when I do research in books IRL I get extremely frustrated that I can't magically search them for the terms I want.Cassidyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03596345781746342408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848073453811666225.post-703729816333580522012-03-30T15:34:35.813-04:002012-03-30T15:34:35.813-04:00Dear Cassidy,
Oh, well dissected and written! Utt...Dear Cassidy,<br /><br />Oh, well dissected and written! Utterly fascinating. The term makes so much more sense to me now, and I am glad to know its roots from actual usage. <br /><br />It interests me that researches like this are so much easier now than even five years ago. Fifteen years ago it would have taken months to do the research at multiple libraries.<br /><br />Thank you so much!ZipZiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04088551086336264968noreply@blogger.com