Anne Margaret Daniel

Was the flapper style of the 1920s so liberating?

Women certainly found the bob a welcome change – but with shorter skirts came agonising over diets, depilatories, make-up and dangerous cosmetic surgery

Fashion in the late 1920s. [Alamy] 
issue 25 May 2024
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