She cavorted, wild and willful ... and finally, in the 1920s and beyond, to an aspiration. Unlike their mothers and grandmothers, flappers tended to go to high school and even college, and ...

The big picture: The 1920s brought a redefinition in women's roles and ideals, from social mores to fashion. Flappers rejected the corsets — real and metaphorical — of yore, delaying marriage ...