Her Lotus Year: Peking’s Flappers

A brief “interest piece” that ran in US newspapers in December 1924 – “Flappers in China”. Right around the time Wallis was in town and wearing her rather conservative version of flapper-inspired 1920s styles. Here she is at the White Dagoba (Pagoda) in Peking’s Beihai Park in December 1924. By the spring of 1925 she was wearing less conventional clothing and embracing Chinese-inspired dresses, silk kinonos etc in what would become her lifelong signature style.

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