WELCOME to the Roaring Twenties – but this time it is not all jazz, flapper dresses and speakeasies ... They're all about “boom boom”, as the gaudy aesthetic has been dubbed.

Originally published in the September 9, 1925 edition of The New Republic. Jane’s a flapper. That is a quaint, old-fashioned term, but I hope you remember its meaning. As you can tell by her ...