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  • And stylized turbans -- a cross between a traditional head wrap and a flapper's cloche -- gave them an urban, ethnic cool.

    Fashion Week: Dolce and Gabbana, Robert Cavalli, Brioni, Giorgio Armani Robin Givhan 2010

  • Stevie Nicks was waiting for us, still dressed in her flapper's outfit from her waitress job.

    ɘloЯ 2010

  • The Great Depression had its high-heel backlash against the flapper's dancing shoes; the 1970s oil crisis had the return of the platform.

    Rising high heels correlate with falling economy. And pain. 2010

  • I stopped liking the holiday in my college days when on a particularly cold Halloween night I dressed in fishnet tights and a skimpy flapper's dress.

    Tina Traster: The Great Divide: A Healthy Halloween 2009

  • Melanie found her favorite gold-fringed flapper's dress.

    The Other Daughter Gardner, Lisa 1999

  • If you find the company of generals a little trying go to the flapper's restaurant.

    Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson

  • In less than fifty hours that case will be as empty as a flapper's skull.

    Skylark Three Hans Waldemar Wessolowski 1927

  • When we get Mr. Tube done, we'll take him out into space, leaving his mouth open, and very shortly he'll be as empty as a flapper's skull.

    Spacehounds of IPC 1927

  • As the fierce light from the window beat down upon her mother's face, it seemed so old, so wondrously old, that all the formidable machinery of beautification about the room struck a chord of compassion in the flapper's breast, which was, however, at once compounded with humour in her mind.

    Too Old for Dolls A Novel 1926

  • Leonetta and the jealousy it provoked, that every minute that Lord Henry spoke, every minute that his voice held the flapper's ears in attentive subjection, were to him so many hours of agonising dread.

    Too Old for Dolls A Novel 1926

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