Beauty :: This Freedom [The ZOO]

This Freedom

'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...

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