Film
Please note: This was screened in Feb 2026
Long before Clara Bow or Louise Brooks made the flapper a global icon, screen star Olive Thomas defined the look, attitude and energy of the modern young woman on screen.
The Flapper (1920) - the first film ever to use the term in its title — captures a pivotal cultural moment: the dawn of the Roaring Twenties, when women’s lives, fashion and freedoms were rapidly changing.
A witty and stylish comedy, Thomas plays a small-town schoolgirl who ventures to an elite finishing school and discovers the excitement and complications of independence, flirtation and fun.