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Stichwörter: humor flying flapper flapping

In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

Anna Godbersen

Stichwörter: new-york city flapper anna-godbersen bright-young-things limousine

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A study of fifty women conducted in 1887 revealed that the corset forcibly contracted their waists by anywhere between two and a half and six bodies. The pressure it applied to women's bodies averaged twenty-one pounds but could reach as high as eighty-eight pounds. Tight-lacing was thus akin to crushing oneself slowly from all sides. As a harsh critic of the corset noted, 'It is evident, physiologically, that air is the pabulum of life, and that the effects of a tight cord round the neck and of tight-lacing only differ in degree.... for the strangulations are both fatal. To wear tight stays is in many cases to wither, to waste and to die.

Joshua Zeitz

Stichwörter: style freedom corsets strangulation flapper 1880s restrictive

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It is the custom to look back on ourselves of the boom days with a disapproval that approaches horror...But it had its virtues, that old boom: Life was a great deal larger and gayer for most people, and the stampede to the Spartan virtues in times of war and famine shouldn't make us too dizzy to remember its hilarious glory.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Stichwörter: personal-quote flapper

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You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Stichwörter: humor love kissing romance kiss relationships lust fitzgerald kissing-quotes flapper