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Odette Swann is a flapper through and through. She is outgoing and flirtatious, loves dressing up, beats the boys and cards, and will not be left out of any secret clubs. While reveling in her new freedoms, Odette is still irritated by the persistent sexist obsessions with women's looks. Sure she likes dolling up, but if all you can say about her is that she has nice gams, she'll box your ear. When her fiance Derek Archer gives the wrong answer to "is beauty all that matters?" that's the final straw. Odette packs her bags and leaves for St. Louis.

She now performs at a ritzy private club called Swan Lake, owned by a wealthy crook named Bart Roth. With her grace and swan-like build, it's only reasonable that her new manager decided to put her in white feathers --now all the rage in the Roaring 20s. Not only do feathers compliment the flapper's over-the-top extravagance, but they're also great props for dancing and flirting. Entertainers in particular are utilizing them in their performances. Elegant headdresses are also exploding in popularity, due to the discovery of King Tut's tomb; every flapper now wants to feel like an Egyptian queen.

While she has no love for her control-freak boss, Odette has come to see her coworkers as family: the permanently plastered rum-runner, Lorenzo "Speed" Trudgealong; flamboyant dance choreographer, Jean-Bob; and the ever vigilant doorman, Sergeant Puffin (still a bit deranged from the Great War). During the day, the group of friends trash-talk Bart and make mischief around the city. But as soon as the moon comes up, Odette must don the feathers for Bart's patrons, and the fellows have to make themselves scarce.

Derek has been carrying a torch for Odette for the last five years. One night of bar-hopping, Derek and his buddy Brom happen to stagger into a fancy private club called Swan Lake. Some drunken antics somehow lead to the pair being mistaken for two of Al Capone's delivery boys, who are supposed to be bringing an overdue shipment of liquor from Chicago. While Brom stumbles around the ritzy crowd providing comic relief, Derek suddenly freezes when he hears a familiar voice singing his and Odette's old song, Far Longer Than Forever. At first, he doesn't recognize the glamorous blond dripping with white feathers, but soon enough he does. As soon as Odette gets a break, Derek rushes to her makeup room to speak with her, while Brom wanders back outside and gets arrested for public drunkenness.

Odette is pleased to see that Derek has finally caught up to the times, and now sees women as people. She's tired of the stage life, and is more than ready to go back to casual civilian hedonism. The problem is, her contract with Bart is basically for life. And that creep has friends in all kinds of high places. So Derek, Odette, and her pals from the club are begin combing law books for some legal loopholes.

AN: Information on feather fashion is stunningly hard to find on the Internet. Even Wikipedia's page begins with a "problems with this article" box. Anyway, Odette's look here was inspired by various vintage photos of flappers with large feather boas and feather-dresses.

For the rest of March, you can expect mostly non-Disney girls. This is partially because I'm saving so many of the Disney princesses for certain times of the year; but it's also to set up for the April Fool's entry, which will only really work if it's understood that this series includes Disney knock-offs as well as Disney.

Here is the old version:

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Description
Odette Swann is a flapper through and through. She is outgoing and flirtatious, loves dressing up, beats the boys and cards, and will not be left out of any secret clubs. While reveling in her new freedoms, Odette is still irritated by the persistent sexist obsessions with women's looks. Sure she likes dolling up, but if all you can say about her is that she has nice gams, she'll box your ear. When her fiance Derek Archer gives the wrong answer to "is beauty all that matters?" that's the final straw. Odette packs her bags and leaves for St. Louis.

She now performs at a ritzy private club called Swan Lake, owned by a wealthy crook named Bart Roth. With her grace and swan-like build, it's only reasonable that her new manager decided to put her in white feathers --now all the rage in the Roaring 20s. Not only do feathers compliment the flapper's over-the-top extravagance, but they're also great props for dancing and flirting. Entertainers in particular are utilizing them in their performances. Elegant headdresses are also exploding in popularity, due to the discovery of King Tut's tomb; every flapper now wants to feel like an Egyptian queen.

While she has no love for her control-freak boss, Odette has come to see her coworkers as family: the permanently plastered rum-runner, Lorenzo "Speed" Trudgealong; flamboyant dance choreographer, Jean-Bob; and the ever vigilant doorman, Sergeant Puffin (still a bit deranged from the Great War). During the day, the group of friends trash-talk Bart and make mischief around the city. But as soon as the moon comes up, Odette must don the feathers for Bart's patrons, and the fellows have to make themselves scarce.

Derek has been carrying a torch for Odette for the last five years. One night of bar-hopping, Derek and his buddy Brom happen to stagger into a fancy private club called Swan Lake. Some drunken antics somehow lead to the pair being mistaken for two of Al Capone's delivery boys, who are supposed to be bringing an overdue shipment of liquor from Chicago. While Brom stumbles around the ritzy crowd providing comic relief, Derek suddenly freezes when he hears a familiar voice singing his and Odette's old song, Far Longer Than Forever. At first, he doesn't recognize the glamorous blond dripping with white feathers, but soon enough he does. As soon as Odette gets a break, Derek rushes to her makeup room to speak with her, while Brom wanders back outside and gets arrested for public drunkenness.

Odette is pleased to see that Derek has finally caught up to the times, and now sees women as people. She's tired of the stage life, and is more than ready to go back to casual civilian hedonism. The problem is, her contract with Bart is basically for life. And that creep has friends in all kinds of high places. So Derek, Odette, and her pals from the club are begin combing law books for some legal loopholes.

AN: Information on feather fashion is stunningly hard to find on the Internet. Even Wikipedia's page begins with a "problems with this article" box. Anyway, Odette's look here was inspired by various vintage photos of flappers with large feather boas and feather-dresses.

For the rest of March, you can expect mostly non-Disney girls. This is partially because I'm saving so many of the Disney princesses for certain times of the year; but it's also to set up for the April Fool's entry, which will only really work if it's understood that this series includes Disney knock-offs as well as Disney.

Here is the old version:

More Prohibition Princesses

Prohibition Princesses on Tumblr

Prohibition Princesses on Archive of Our Own (relax, it's the clean side of the site)