CONTENTS Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1 German and Austrian Fashion between the Wars Berlin and Konfektion Jewish Clothiers Vienna Paris The German Textile Industry Press and Publicity Photography Training Chapter 2 The Nazi Destruction of Germany's Clothing Industry Nazis Come to Power, 1933 Nazis Target Konfektion 'Aryans' and Jews Judenrein: the Jews Disappear from Germany The Anschluss: Austria is Annexed into the German Reich Chapter 3 Britain: New Home to the Refugees, Ancient Home of the Knitting Trade Great British Woollen Traditions: Pringle and John Smedley Possible Destinations for Jewish Refugees? USA and Palestine Kindertransports The Great Northern Trading Estates Miracle Chapter 4 War! Refugees into Enemy Aliens Rationing, Making Do and Mending Paris and Couture during the War Bureaucracy Chapter 5 Showing Off Refugees at 'Britain Can Make It', 1946 Festival of Britain, 1951 The New Window Display Export or Die! The Ambassador Magazine and Hans and Elsbeth Juda Refugee Photographers at Vogue Refugee Graphic Designers in Fashion Chapter 6 Refugee Stories Hats off to Otto Lucas: Gay, Glamorous and German Ettinger: Bags of Style The Little Refugee Kangaroo: Kangol Making Sparks at Marks: Hans Schneider brings Dior to the Masses Over Here and Underwear: Silhouette Textiles and the Refugees: Colour, Texture, Pattern: Elisabeth Tomalin Jacqueline Groag Tibor Reich Zika and Lida Ascher Miki Sekers Bernat Klein Otto Weisz at Pringle and the Twinset Mr Berdach, Mr Churchill and the Bow Ties Buttoned Up: Hornflowa, Lucie Rie and Issey Miyake Mr Noskwith, Bletchley Park and Charnos Silky Stockings John Smedley's Mysterious Klothilde Ehrenfest Francis Steiner and Tick-a-Tee Children's Wear Hans Schneider and the Arts Illo, the Kindertransportee at M & S Launer, on the Arm of Her Majesty Double Two Collars the Shirt Market Frank Usher and the Frocks Lord Kagan and Gannex The Fabulous Kroll Dynasty Jerseycraft: Mr Bratman of Wakefield Kultur! Textile Refugees in Opera, Theatre and Visual Arts Djanoglys Landsberger: Bags of Ingenuity Eva Aldbrook: Fashion Illustrator in the Golden Age Conclusion Bibliography Index.
The Clothes on Our Backs : How Refugees from Nazism Revitalised the British Fashion Trade