1920 ad for Miss Manhattan coats and suits, 1374 Broadway.

Photo: Period Paper

Cyma Watch Company advertising poster featuring quintessential Jazz Age flapper; Paris, 1925.

August 11, 1922 Harold Teen by Carl Ed: "One of Those Ultra-Modern Flappers"

[ID: A young flapper with short bobbed hair stands on the beach in full equestrian suit with knee-high boots and a belt cinched tight at the waist. She smokes from a wooden pipe, casually blowing smoke rings. /end]

[ID: Lillums and Harold sit side-by-side on the beach, gawking at the flapper. Lillums looks peeved, Harold confused. /end] Lillums: There's Peggy White. Ever since she returned from London, she's been sporting a pipe and knickers! Harold: Sweet daddy!

[ID: Lillums turns back to Harold and adjusts her bobbed hairdo. /end] Lillums: She's quite the centiped's goloshes, don't you think? Harold: She don't cause any commotion in my young life, but...

Harold: ...for all of that, she may still be a perfect GENTLEMAN! [ID: Lillums faints over backwards as Harold clutches his knees to his chest and laughs. /end]

1926: “This girl has all of [the] trends and she’s not loath to wear them at once: bell earrings, a dog collar worn as a necklace, a large beauty spot on her cheek, an ivory cigarette holder, a design to cover the vaccination mark on her arm, heavy bracelets, an anklet, a photo of a boyfriend on her stocking, an anklet watch, fancy garters worn below the knee and a mirror fastened to her wrist.”

Waiting for wristwatch anklets to make a comeback

it’s 1934 at the Degas House

Kae Carroll in the Ziegfeld Follies, c. 1925-1927

Edward Steichen - Marion Morehouse (Vogue 1927)

George Barbier, La Belle Personne, Worth evening dress, detail, fashion plate from Gazette du Bon Ton, 1925.

exploring the Degas House, but make it 1935…

1920s Art Deco heels

The first Mrs. Vincent Astor, Helen Dinsmore Huntington, a leader of New York society, ca. 1926. Her friend Glenway Wescott, the novelist, described her in his unpublished diaries as "a grand, old-fashioned lesbian." After her divorce from Astor in 1940, she married Lytle Hull, a friend and business associate of Astor's.

Photo: Everett Collection via Elle Serbia

August 5, 1922 Harold Teen by Carl Ed: "Anyway, Harold's Answer Was Plausible"

[ID: Harold leans bitterly on a brick wall outside, impatiently waiting. /end] Harold: If Lillums ever showed up on time, I'd pass away! "If I don't wait for her, others will," is her comeback!

[ID: A fashionable young flapper walks ditzily down the street, wearing jodhpurs and carrying a riding crop. Harold takes notice. /end] Flapper: Dear! Dear! I've forgotten something. Now what is it?

[ID: Harold walks up to the woman, gregariously tipping his hat. /end] Harold: Miss, may I suggest? Your HORSE! Flapper: ????

[ID: The flapper storms off, throwing her riding crop directly into Harold's eye. /end] Flapper: Fresh!

George Barbier, El juicio de Paris (The Judgement of Paris). 1923.

source

John Held Jr. (1889-1958), ''Life'', Aug. 11, 1927 Source