It's The Bee's Knees!
Continuing on with a transportation theme we arrive at the 1920's! This young heiress is thrilled with her new automobile (it's the bee's knees!) This is a fancier vehicle than most of the jalopies or "tin lizzies" of the '20's. Some of these cars came with a "rumble seat"-a fold out seat compartment in the back-perfect for young couples (who wanted privacy), mother-in-laws, or kids!
In vintage sepia tone~
The art in progress video-with a song based on the "rumble seat"
Very stylish! She's going places and she knows it!
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DeleteLet's hop in my flivver and 23 skiddoo!
ReplyDeleteThe Flatiron Building when it was completed in 1902 all had the effect of increasing the velocity of winds that came swirling through the neighborhood. Otherwise gentle breezes gathered strength and often wreaked havoc with the long dresses that were then fashionable, lifting skirts well above a lady's shoetops. At a time when even "a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking," the possibility of a peek provided great sport for local idlers, wiseacres and even precocious young lads who should have been averting their eyes instead of whooping with glee when an ankle flashed into view. The police, or Roundsmen as they were then known, combined gallantry with crowd control and were said to disperse the Peeping Toms by giving them "the 23 skidoo." The "23" part of that theory is self-evident (23rd Street), while "skidoo" is likely a derivative of "skedaddle," a verb implying a very quick departure, and the sooner the better. Skedaddle itself might be a dialect form of "scatter." Ironically, the expression "23 skidoo" reached the pinnacle of its popularity during the Roaring Twenties, a period when women's hemlines were higher, morals were lower and bare limbs were as common as lipstick-stained cigarette butts.
I never knew where the phrase came from-thanks for the history on it!
ReplyDeleteThank this miracle called the internet, I didn't know it either.
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