Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: On Fashion, Women, and Modernity 1
6. Discourses on Fashion
7. 1: The Fashion Journalist: Flâneur or New Woman? 21
8. 2: Fashion Journalism at Ullstein House 50
9. 3: In the Waiting Room of Literature: Helen Grund and the Practice of Fashion and Travel Writing 84
10. Displays of Fashion
11. 4: Weimar Film as Fashion Show 113
12. 5: The Mannequins 151
13. 6: Fashion and Fiction: Women’s Modernity in Irmgard Keun’s Novel Gilgi 171
14. Epilogue 192
15. Appendix I: Biographical Information on Fashion Journalists and Fashion Illustrators 197
16. Appendix II: A List of German Feature Films about Fashion from the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s 203
17. Works Cited 205
18. Index 227