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Let’s hear it for 2020

WILD dancing, roaring cars, glamorous liners and romantic train travel, vivid cocktails in slender glasses, swinging ropes of pearls, beads and bobbed hair, feather boas and fringes, optimism and energy, colour and noise—can we recapture the hope, vitality and elegance of the early 1920s)?

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