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After the country had celebrated the end of world war i in 1918, the flapper shocked society by flagrantly defying the traditional passive and gentile image of femininity. Jazz, racy fashions, eyebrowraising new attitudes about art and sexall of this pointed to a sleek, modern world, one that could shake off the grimness of the great war and stride into the future in one deft, stylized gesture. And as the author reminds us, the party of the decade gave way to the painful hangover post1929. Luisa casati, doris castlerosse, and peggy guggenheim.
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