Miley, I’d like you to meet Josephine. Lindsay, allow me to introduce Tallulah. Kim K, this is Zelda.
They are your mothers — your forebears in style, scandal, shock and awe. Perhaps you think you invented outrageous behavior, but these women were delighting and horrifying the masses decades before anyone had so much as breathed the word “twerk.” And take note: They did it better, with more wit and panache than has ever graced the red carpet of the MTV Video Music Awards.
Josephine Baker, Tallulah Bankhead, Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Zelda Fitzgerald and Tamara de Lempicka are the marquee characters in“Flappers,” Judith Mackrell’s new account of the grand dames of the 1920s. I’m not sure I came away convinced that their generation was dangerous, as the subtitle argues, but they seem to have had a hell of a lot of fun. Mackrell, a British dance critic, chose as her subjects women of such antics and ambition that one can’t help but want to throw on a few baubles, walk the streets of Paris and sip a gin fizz in their raucous company.
The book is amazing. It takes time to read but I'm loving it!!!!!
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