Lists of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements, Maude Bass-Krueger, Hayley Edwards-Dujardin, and Sophie Kurkdjian
Notes on Translation
Timeline
Introduction, Maude Bass-Krueger and Sophie Kurkdjian
I. The Reconfiguration of the International Couture Industry
1: Wartime Marketing of Parisian Haute Couture in the United States, 1914-1917
Mary Lynn Stewart
2: Boué Sœurs, “Compelled by the War”
Waleria Dorogova
3: “Gladdening the hearts of warriors:” the relationship between Lucile’s romantic fashions and morale in World War I
Georgina Ripley
4: Die Kriegskrinoline - A Feminine Fashion Between Past and Future
Birgit Haase
5: Fashion in Belgium during the Great War and the Case of Norine
Nele Bernheim
II. The Materiality of Wartime Fashion and Textile Industries
6: Dressed to Quill: The Origin and Significance of the Feathered Showgirl in World War I Paris
Emily Brayshaw
7: Between Fashion and Folk: Dress Practices in Alsace during World War I
Sara Hume
8: The Lace Industry in Belgium and France During the War
Marguerite Coppens
9: Industrial and Handmade Clothing Production in the Netherlands, a Neutral Country during First World War
Marta Kargól
10: Wartime Fabrics in the Historical Archives of Como Weavers and in the Collections of the Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Margherita Rosina
III. Problematic Uniforms: Male and Female Experiences and Second-Hand Trade Networks
11: “Breeched, Booted, and Cropped:” a dress historical analysis of the uniform worn by members of Britain’s Women’s Land Army, 1917-1919
Amy de la Haye
12: The French Home Front in 1914-1918: An Investigation of Female Workwear
Jérémie Brucker
13: Rushing to Suit Up: French Aviation’s Adjustment to Wartime Uniforms, 1914-1916
Guillaume de Syon
14: The Spoils of War: Use and Transformations of Second-Hand Uniforms during the
First World War in France
Manuel Charpy
IV. Fashion in Print: Questions of National Fashion and Gender
15: The Gentleman Turned “Enemy:” Men’s Fashion in the Hungarian Press, 1914-1918
Zsolt Mészáros
16: The Politics of Fashion: German Fashion (Writings) in Times of War
Burcu Dogramaci
17: The Italian Fashion Magazine Margherita: the War, Women, and the Call for a “Moda Italiana,” 1914-1918
Enrica Morini
18: Le Flambeau’s Fashion Discourse during the First World War: Towards a Retrograde Femininity?
Nigel Lezama
19: Is Beauty Useless? Fashion, Gender, and British Wartime Society in Punch Magazine, 1915
Andréa Kollnitz
Index