Styles represented reach all the way to the flapper dresses of the 1920s.

In her White House portrait, she was dressed in a red sleeveless flapper dress, and stood next to a large white dog.

Drama can't live by flapper dresses alone.

Wearing it would be like putting on your grandmother's flapper dress, adding fishnet stockings and going out clubbing.

Where's the best city to buy 1930s flapper dresses, 1950s Dior or a 1970s maxi?

Try a lemon chiffon number from Asos or River Island's beaded flapper dress.

They do not look like flapper dresses.

But when flapper dresses made boyish figures de rigueur in the 1920's, undershirts with flatter lines followed suit.

Floral garden-party versions appeared at Marc Jacobs, among the myriad flapper dresses.

The flapper dress was functional and flattened the bust line rather than accentuating it.