This Freedom featuring Face Atelier
'Our standards are so completely changed from the old that comparison or argument is impossible.' Cecil Beaton, 1928.
In the 1920s, women were waking up from a post-Great War slumber and rising as vaseline-lidded flappers. Shaking off their hospital and munitions factory uniforms to 'bob their hair, raise their hemlines & paint their faces', '...they smoked hard, swore hard, and drank hard - got 'blotto'. more...