Ruby the Flapper
Although Ruby is not a real historical figure, a character much like her surely existed in the New York of the 1920s. Flappers—bold young women who wore their hair short and their skirts shorter—populated New York City during the Jazz Age. And even before the flapper era, young women from across the country were drawn to the glitz and glamour of New York. Sometimes they ended up, like Ruby, in the city’s shady and dangerous corners. Learn more about flapper culture here.