Worn Through Book Review: Berliner Chic

After a pass through 1920s Berlin, across its busy fashion district and along streets packed with smartly dressed women, Franz Hessel, the citys most famous flneur, concluded: Berlin is well on its way to becoming an elegant city. Two decades earlier around 1900, another astute interpreter of metropolitan beauty, August Endell, wrote: The much criticized womens fashion is almost the only institution [in the metropolis] that is vital and dynamic today, and almost joyful to observe.