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Coco Chanel
French fashion designer (1883–1971)
Josephine Baker
American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)
Minnie Mouse
Disney cartoon character who is often the girlfriend of Mickey Mouse
Clara Bow
American actress (1905–1965)
Daisy Duck
Disney cartoon character
Zelda Fitzgerald
American writer (1900–1948)
Betty Boop
animated cartoon character
flapper
Flappers were a subculture of young Western women prominent after the First World War and through the 1920s who wore knee-length skirts (considered short during that period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for prevailing codes of decent behavior. Flappers have been seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes in public, driving automobiles, treating sex in a casual manner, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms. As automobiles became more available, flappers gained freedom of movement and privacy.
sequin
thumb|Round, flat sequins right|thumb|A close-up of a gold sequin-covered shoe.
bob cut
any hairstyle for medium-length hair where the hair is cut along a circular line around the head, letting it cover the ears and hang above the shoulders
Babylon Berlin
German thriller TV series set in the Weimar Republic
Thoroughly Modern Millie
1967 film by George Roy Hill
The Flapper
1920 film
Blondie
American comic strip starting 1930
Sahara
1983 film directed by Andrew McLaglen
modern girl
westernized Japanese women during the Interwar period
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1925 comic novel by Anita Loos
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
2008 film by Jodie Markell
While the City Sleeps
1928 film by Jack Conway
Black Oxen
1923 film by Frank Lloyd
Mélo
1986 film by Alain Resnais
Fig Leaves
1926 film
Wine of Youth
1924 film by King Vidor
Belga
Belgian cigarette brand owned and manufactured by British American Tobacco
Forty Elephants
19th- and 20th-century gang of female shoplifters in the UK
Thoroughly Modern Millie
2002 musical with music by Jeanine Tesori
Reckless Youth
1922 film by Ralph Ince
Shimmy
thumb|right|250px|1918 sheet music "Everybody Shimmies Now" with Mae West thumb|250px|right|When the Alamo Theater in Atlanta used a cutout display of Viola Dana with separately mounted shoulders and a mechanism to do a shimmy for the film ''The Chorus Girl's Romance'' (1920), the chief of police ordered the mechanism turned off. A shimmy or shoulder shakes is a dance move in which the body is held still, except for the shoulders, which are quickly alternated back and forth. When the right shoulder goes back, the left one comes forward.
Polly and Her Pals
Comic strip
Don't
1925 film by Alfred John Goulding
Torches of Freedom
term encouraging women's smoking in the early 20th century United States
The Cardboard Lover
1928 film by Robert Z. Leonard
The Perfect Flapper
1924 film by John Francis Dillon
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
1920 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Three O'Clock in the Morning
1923 film directed by Kenneth S. Webb
Shalimar
Guerlain perfume
Orchids and Ermine
1927 film by Alfred Santell