Whatever. Flappers is not a work of serious history or trenchant social commentary. It’s merely very entertaining. The six women are, in order of appearance: Lady Diana Manners, later Cooper ...

In 'Flappers,' Judith Mackrell details the lives of Josephine Baker, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Lady Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard and Tamara de Lempicka in lively roaring '20s fashion.

Look up flapper online and you'll see Merriam-Webster's definition of "a young woman in the 1920s who dressed and behaved in a way that was considered very modern." Or as F. Scott Fitzgerald's ...

But on women in the 1920s — popularly called flappers — it was unprecedented, fixing the iconic figure in the national imagination as a symbol of the new roles and rights of women.

Laura Jacobs reviews "Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation," by Judith Mackrell.

Others who invented aspects of the flapper mystique were New Yorker writer Lois Long, who gave readers a vicarious peek into the humorous late-night adventures of the New Woman; designer Coco ...