In the 1920s modern women in movies and in real life had to look like children. The FLAPPER might have had the figure of an adolescent boy and the face of a small child with a soft nose, saucer eyes and a pouting mouth. In plus a new hairstyle - the bobbed hair - created a sensation. >>> FLAPPER DRESSES
A celebration of the original 'it' girls of the 1920s
Films chosen by Professor Laura Mulvey:
Love 'em and Leave 'em (1926), The Plastic Age (1925), Mantrap (1926), It (1927), ...
June 2000 / London www.bfi.org.uk
