During the 1910s young girls wore big bows on their hair that fell onto the head, and so they became known as "flappers". The name would stick with this generation, as they grew up in the 1920s.
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
J.C. Leyendecker, The Saturday Evening Post, Easter, 1923
It's one of the most popular images on my flickr! It just doesn't seem very Easter-y to me. With the little cupid and all, it seems more like a Valentine's Day image.
JC Leyender is credited with creating the Baby New Year. Which means that for the Evening Post magazine, the nude baby would appear to signal a new yr. My understanding is that a 'new yr' meant a new yr for the magazine, not a secular new yr... and perhaps that fell at Easter. That's my guess. A bit muddled - but a brilliant illustration from Leyendecker.
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3 comments:
How wonderful...haha, that's definitely one of the cooler things I've seen in my life.
It's one of the most popular images on my flickr! It just doesn't seem very Easter-y to me. With the little cupid and all, it seems more like a Valentine's Day image.
JC Leyender is credited with creating the Baby New Year. Which means that for the Evening Post magazine, the nude baby would appear to signal a new yr.
My understanding is that a 'new yr' meant a new yr for the magazine, not a secular new yr... and perhaps that fell at Easter. That's my guess.
A bit muddled - but a brilliant illustration from Leyendecker.
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