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Who invented flapper dress?

We’re still talking about it. Here’s a great example of the style that started it all.” —Randi Weston on the origins of the flapper dress

“When it was first introduced, a woman with a high armpit was seen as a freak, as the person who couldn’t run, which was a lot of people!” —John Tesh on the origins of the flapper dress

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“In the ’40s she [flapper designer Donna Karan] had her own department and they got so many sales of dresses, they sold them to the high fashion editors in the New York Times! They were wearing them at dinner parties, with people who loved clothes. I think it’s very interesting that a dress came to be called a flapper dress and a flapper style. The women who wore the dress were very liberated, independent, and wanted to be admired—not that it was a radical idea. They just saw themselves in it, and they loved it.” —John Tesh on the origins of the flapper dress.”In the ’40s she [flapper designer Donna Karan] had her own department and they got so many sales of dresses, they sold them to the high fashion editors in the New York Times! They were wearing them at dinner parties, with people who loved clothes. I think it’s very interesting that a dress came to be called a flapper dress and a flapper style. The women who wore the dress were very liberated, independent, and wanted to be admired—not that it was a radical idea. They just saw themselves in it, and they loved it.” —John Tesh on the origins of the flapper dress

“In the 60s—and it’s an exaggeration, but I just love this idea—I have a flapper outfit, a black dress that I got for Valentine’s Day from a department store. I wore it to a restaurant party that, when I was a kid, people would sit around, and a friend or my mother would come over. They loved it, and my sister wanted to wear it, and she didn’t. So I wore it. And every once in a while someone would come up to me, and say, “You should have that dress.” And I’d go, “I don’t know if I should have it. I don’t have a wardrobe.” Then my sister comes over and the next time I go over, she has this whole ensemble, and I think I’m going to wear that!