A century ago, the prosperous, post-World War I “Jazz Age ... only did the flapper opt for short—“bobbed”—boyish hair, but her undergarments were scant beneath a dress or skirt ...

Mozart’s original 1790 cast members did not wear flapper dresses and doughboy uniforms — of that we can be sure. But it’s surprising how little a transposition of “Così” to the Jazz Age really matters ...

With her New York-based atelier, Patricia Voto is giving a second life to 10 couture pieces spanning the 1920s and '30s.

Mozart’s original 1790 cast members did not wear flapper dresses and doughboy uniforms ... little a transposition of “Così” to the Jazz Age really matters to its darkly comical ...