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The Roaring Twenties

You want to be where it's happening, and in the 1920s it was happening in Paris, Berlin and New York at once. Josephine Baker arrived in Paris in 1925 and within months was the best-paid performer in Europe; fashion dropped the corset, hair got cut, and nightlife became a public space. What would have caught up with you: the decade is bracketed by two disasters. It opens after the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic killed tens of millions, and it ends in October 1929. The people who made the Roaring Twenties turned thirty in 1930, unemployed, and forty-five in the middle of a world war. The carelessness you envy was a response to grief, not an absence of it.