Flappers and their followers seized and celebrated these freedoms by dressing differently, in what was considered to be rebellious attire.

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Yes there were flappers and sopping-wet boozehounds and bootleggers and gangsters.

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We jumped from the imminent attack of one fur seal, into the flappers of another, passing en route the odd bull elephant seal weighing in at about four tons.

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Peter L. Stern of Boston had a couple of attention-snatching, jacketed examples of This Side of Paradise (1920) and Flappers and Philosophers (1922), extravagantly inscribed by Fitzgerald, the latter presented to comic actor Edward Everett Horton.

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