Costantinopoli as seen on an illustrated map included in the
“Liber Insularium Archipelagi” by Cristoforo Buondelmonte
via Diogenes99
Frankie Manning. Helped invent Lindy Hop in the 1940s, and thereby an entire brand of culture in swing dancing. Sharp dresser, smooth talker, amazing dancer until he died. And LOOK at that beautiful man!
Since we have had a country and a god on this blog before, I suppose it’s perfectly fine to submit a group of people…behold the flappers!
They were the young women of the 1920s who broke many social conventions of the time by wearing short skirts(of course, long by our standards), smoking, drinking, and dating a lot of men.
They also had their own slang(lounge lizards and jelly beans described attractive young men, for instance) and were just awesome overall.
They also wore awesome clothes.
And they had an awesome magazine.
