Lost Girls: The Invention of the Flapper

About this book

In the glorious boozy party after the first World War a new being burst defiantly onto the world stage: the so-called flapper. Young impetuous and flirtatious she was an alluring controversial figure celebrated in movies fiction plays and the pages of fashion magazines. But as this book argues she didnt appear out of nowhere. This spirited beautifully illustrated history presents a fresh look at the reality of young womens experiences in America and Britain from the 1890s to the 1920s when the modern girl emerged. Linda Simon shows us how this modern girl bravely created a culture a look and a future of her own. Lost Girls is an illuminating history of the iconic flapper as she evolved from a problem to a temptation and finally in the 1920s and beyond to an aspiration.