Aging flappers?

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I've wondered for a while...

You know how women tended to follow the latest fashions for a while, then in middle age to settle on the current 'look' and stay more or less consistent in that to the end of their lives? (So elderly women in the 1920s would still be around in 19th-century fashions, sitting in their bonnets and bustles and whatever -- and there was a population of aging mini-skirt wearers in the 1980s who'd never really shaken off the Sixties...)

Given that the 'flapper' look was so very much a youthful one, I wondered if there was a conservative section of women who did stick with it after fashions changed, or if it was just too obviously unsuited to older women. (You can see in silent films that middle-aged women did take up the tube-dress look when it was fashionable -- and you can see what the results looked like on outsize figures, too...)

Or would the upheaval of a second World War have effectively killed off the remnants of an earlier era, anyway?