Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- CLOCHE
- The cloche, French for 'bell', became the hat of the decade, hugging the skull so snugly it all but demanded the bobbed hairstyle beneath it.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CHEMISE
- The dropped-waist chemise dress, hanging straight from shoulder to knee, was a radical departure from the structured Edwardian silhouette that preceded it.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- GATSBY
- F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel captured the era's excess so precisely that 'Gatsby' became shorthand for the glittering, dressed-to-dazzle spirit of the whole decade.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SEQUINS
- Tiny discs of glass or metal sewn onto eveningwear caught the light of the new electric ballrooms, turning every dance floor into a constellation.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Flappers & Style: a free large-print word search
1920s fashion word search, free and large-print. Bobbed hair, silk chemises, and the glittering defiance of the flapper era.
About Flappers & Style
The 1920s rewrote the rules of dressing from the hem up. Skirts rose to the knee, hair was cut scandalously short into the sleek bob, and the dropped-waist chemise dress replaced the corset with something altogether freer. Flappers finished the look with ropes of pearls, a cloche hat pulled low over one eye, and just enough rouge to raise an eyebrow across the room.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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