By: Lynn Peril

Shops designed to “encourage the blundering male to pick the right gifts.”

By: Lynn Peril

She awoke to find him on his hands and knees on the floor, “making funny noises.”

By: Lynn Peril

Could a flapper solve the Hall-Mills murder, where others had failed?

By: Lynn Peril

Escorts were to “be polite but impersonal at all times.”

By: Lynn Peril

“Find Out How a REAL Cave-Man Makes Love”

By: Lynn Peril

“This girl’s a scientist?”

By: Lynn Peril

“Don’t ask obvious, endless questions.”

By: Lynn Peril

A bad case of Domestic Hands.

By: Lynn Peril

The power struggle over hair also played out in homes across the nation.

By: Lynn Peril

“This is the life, wonderful time. Pep, jazz, gin.”

By: Lynn Peril

Women who sat on the sidelines cheering didn’t challenge the authority of men.

By: Lynn Peril

“If you don’t know about surfing or don’t like it, you’re too old to go.”

By: Lynn Peril

“The so-called boyish type is an insane monstrosity to all aesthetic conventions of beauty.”

By: Lynn Peril

The line between gentleman and sissy was a fine one to walk.

By: Lynn Peril

Suffering was allegedly woman’s lot in life… Midol gave women permission not to suffer.