Hard Act To Follow

Yesterday and today I posted  illustrations by John Held Jr.  Don't know who he is?  Well I can tell you one thing he is a hard act to follow.  It is said that he shaped a generation.  A generation that had gone though WW1 and returned not to settle down
but to play.  His illustrations often would show young women with painted lips, rosy cheeks and her stockings rolled down past their knees.  I still don't really know why they rolled down their stockings.  I will need to find out one day.  Held Jr. is said to have named these young women "Flappers"  a word that makes me see red.   The minute anyone hears this word the only image that springs to mind is that of a illustration of Mr. Held Jr.  No wonder visitors to our Museum are confused.   If people just stopped to think for a minute why would any one  churn butter in a silk dress and rolled down stockings ?  Do you know what butter will do to a silk dress given the chance.  So there our interpreters stand, heads held high churning butter in their cotton house dresses and hoping very hard that no one asks them "where are the flappers"?