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flapper
(redirected from Garconne)

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flapper
(in the 1920s) a young woman, esp one flaunting her unconventional dress and behaviour


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Anne-Marie Sohn, "La Garconne Face a l'opinion publique: Type litteraire ou type social des annees 207" Le Mouvement social 80 (1972).
I danced their works but I probably had my biggest success in the role of La Garconne (The Blue Girl) in Nijinska's Les Biches when it was revived in 1964.
She convincingly explains how women's fashions served to express cultural attitudes about gender and analyzes why popular novels like Victor Margueritte's La Garconne (1922) became so heavily laden with cultural meaning in the early 1920s.
 
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