A few of my close friends have these little “fingers” which they use to create these waves. They really work and they make a pretty neat effect. Step 1: Find the right volume for your curls. I used an “average” amount of hair (I have a little less than an A-cup), which made the pattern…
The Gatsby Theme is created by the design industry’s experts, renowned designers and illustrators. The theme is created in a special way which provides a rich visual background, in addition to giving a dynamic feel to the theme for its users. Where did the name Gatsby come from? The name Gatsby comes from a 19th…
The Gatsby theme was designed by The Faint, who are best known for designing the stunning and immersive music that plays throughout Netflix’s Daredevil series. What type of story would you want to tell a Gatsby movie? What story is Netflix interested in telling with Gatsby, according to the Wallflower star? “The Gatsby books have…
-A flapper is, well, a regular girl. A girl in a flapper suit (wearing a white tank top, short denim or blouse, a pink top, dark pants, no boots, and sometimes wearing a wig, for some of them, as there are usually so many of them she can not see them) in a men’s bathroom.…
Were they all wearing the same? There were all kinds of stories on flappers wearing very simple hats, and in 1875 the Daily Express carried the following report: “At the present time, according to an informed source who has heard and seen much since the introduction of the new ‘tuxes’ [for flappers] by the authorities…
Well, I’m not entirely sure, really. But this is pretty close… I’m pretty sure it’s an at tshirt. That’s what my mom used to make when we’d go to thrift stores. The shirt looks a little different now, but I like it. It’s all made of a fairly smooth, stretchy material and it’s not too…
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In her twenties, she began to experience some of the same frustrations as her more traditionally feminine colleagues. As a single mother with little in the way of support networks, the struggle for professional recognition and career advancement became painfully evident. According to sociologists Laura Goggin and Julie Beck, “The movement for women’s suffrage was…
As with most color trends, the colors of 80’s were more black, more gray and more orange than in the 90’s. I’ve seen color schemes including a combination of black and a blue/grey scheme. That would have been pretty common in the 80’s. If you had a dream about an 80’s movie, what movie might…
In 1867 an anonymous woman in New York City wrote that she had been named after the flapper girl from New Orleans who once strutted around New York City wearing her signature black corset. The name stuck. What happened to the flappers? New York has many other flappers, including “Romeo and Juliet,” “Chanson la Femme,”…
The question isn’t one you want to get into. And maybe that’s what you want for yourself. At least, that’s what I want for myself. At least I wish the answer was clear before I started digging into the subject further. So here it is. We like to think of flappers and their dresses as…