What's all the flap about?

S&T's prohibition era expert Kate Drowne is quoted in today's Newsday:

Even though flapper dresses were knee-length, it was still enough to raise eyebrows, said Kathleen Drowne, an associate English professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology who has written on the time period.

"This is still coming off a generation previously where if a woman showed her ankle in public, that was something to look at twice," Drowne said.

Read the full story here.