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Roaring Twenties

Dancers from the Georgia Land School of Dancing pose for a group photo in Denver, Colorado. The women, part of the Georgia Lane Group, wear short fringed skirts, bikini tops with sheer fabric overlays, and have their hair marcelled (waved). The woman posed at the extreme left is Sarah Francis "Sally" Orr.

Portrait of Denver Community Players in Denver, Colorado; William Myatt is in a jester costume, a woman in a satin flapper outfit looks on.

A studio portrait of Grayce Smith a possible student at North High School and a member of the Kismet Club. She has her hair slicked back and is wearing a black stain top with white lace pinned to it. She wearing a triple strand pearl necklace.

Ladies' hairstyles of the 1920s

Denver Post Photograph Collection

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