Women of 'Little Paris'

Sonia-Doris Andras is a postdoctoral fashion researcher, primarily focusing on themes related to fashion, gender, urban cultures and modernity in a Romanian context. She has a PhD from London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK. She is Associate Researcher within the research project The Ethos of Dialogue and Education: Romanian – American Cultural Negotiations (1920-1940) at the “Gheorghe Sincai” Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities in Târgu-Mures, Romania.

• Acknowledgements1. Introduction2. Mapping the interwar WorldInventing Greater RomaniaFashioning the Romanian Paradox3. Interwar Metropolitan and Urban CulturesWomen, Life, Fashion and Industry in the City‘Little Paris’: A National Rebirth Project4. From the Modern Girl to the New WomanGender DynamicsCrafting the ‘New Romanian Woman’5. Authors and Characters: Women in LiteratureFictional Women, Real BucharestsDiaries, Memoirs, Biographies 6. From Subjects to Creators: Women Imagined in the ArtsPortraying FashionPerforming Fashion7. Transition to New Visual Forms: Film, PhotographyFashioning the Silver Screen“Pictured with Nose Up, like Moms Wanted”8. ConclusionBibliographyAppendixIndex

In this interdisciplinary book, Sonia-Doris Andras analyses an impressive array of visual and written materials, including the archive of her own family. The result is an original portrayal of modernising interwar Romania through the representations and self-representations of its middle-class fashionistas.