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Goldstaub
The German podcast "Goldstaub" (eng. "Gold Dust") by and with Else Edelstahl (Bohème Sauvage, Berlin) and Arne Krasting (ZeitReisen) on various topics of the Weimar Republic and the Roaring Twenties.
The-20-2-40-Style-Syndicate
Website in German about the time of the 1920s to 1940s. Here you can find valuable information about fashion, film, technology, living, music and dance.
Lisa's Nostalgia Cafe - the 1920s
On this American site you will find interesting facts and short insights on many topics of the 20s, e.g. "At Home", "Movies & Theater" or "Fashion".
Also all other decades of the 20th century are represented.
Illustrator & Artists
Harald Ernst Schwerdtfeger
Harald Schwerdtfeger (1888-1956) designed the covers and colorful men's fashion plates for the German company magazine "Haensel-Echo" in the 1920s and 1930s.
Fashion
Costume workshop Cologne
The Cologne Costume Workshop from Germany makes historical garments, tailors elaborate one-of-a-kind pieces, and rents handcrafted, high-quality costumes from various eras up to the 1970s.
chroniknet
Via the index of the site chroniknet.de (GER) you will find interesting articles from every year of the 20th century on various topics, e.g. architecture, housing and design, work and social affairs, advertising and of course, as linked here, on the topic of fashion.
miniata Design
Original hats in the style of the 1920s from Weimar, Germany, for the woman of today.
Antique-Gown
German website offering for sale ORIGINAL women's dresses, men's wardrobe, hats, shoes, underwear and accessories from the Victorian era to the twenties.
The Fedora Lounge
Lively, English-language forum for men's and women's fashion and all topics related to the "Golden Era" with hundreds of thousands of posts.
Popular Magazines
Przegląd Mody
The German illustrated magazine Modenschau was an internationally published magazine, which was also published in Austria, France, Hungary and some other countries. In Poland, the magazine was launched with the title "Przegląd Mody." The Polish National Library has published online almost all issues from 1927 to 1939.
Sport im Bild / Der Silberspiegel
The German magazine Sport im Bild first started out in 1897 as a sheet for sports reporting. After World War I, it increasingly developed into a "good society journal" with articles on fashion and elegant lifestyles.
In 1934, the magazine was renamed Der Silberspiegel.
Wiener Perfekt Mode
The fashion magazine Wiener Perfekt Mode was published by Perfekt-Verlag in Vienna between 1918 and 1940. The magazine presented the latest fashion on partially colored pages similar to the magazine Modenschau, however without editorial content.
Wiener Modenzeitung
The Wiener Modenzeitung was published by Société Graphique, Vienna, from 1928 until it was discontinued in 1942 due to the Second World War.
UHU, Das Magazin, Scherl's, Revue des Monats
During the Weimar Republic, magazines such as UHU, Das Magazin, Scherl's, Revue des Monats and Das Leben, which followed the American model, enjoyed great popularity from 1924 onward. Richly illustrated thanks to the rapid development of press photography, these little booklets provided diverting entertainment for a wide audience.
Les Modes
In 1901, the French publication Les Modes was the first magazine to make excessive use of photography in its fashion coverage and was considered the high-end fashion publication of the time.
The magazine increasingly lost touch with the zeitgeist, which ultimately contributed to its discontinuation in 1937.
Vogue Archive
Published since 1892, Vogue magazine was (and still is) the leading high-class publication for fashion and good living in the 20th century.
The Vogue Archive offers all digitized US issues from 1892 to 2021 as an online resource.
Photoplay, Motion Picture, Picture Play, i.a.
On this page you will find digital issues of Hollywood film magazines ("Fan Magazine Collection") from the years 1911 to 1960.
These magazines are a great mirror of the popular culture of the US Hollywood cinema and are besides witnesses of the fashion, cosmetics and stars of that time.