The Working Girl and the Fashionable Libertine: Fashion and Film in the Progressive Era, 1900-1915 -- World War I and 'American' Design In Fashion and Film -- 'Goddesses in the Machine': The Fashion Show on Film -- 'Costumes' And Gowns: The Rise of the Specialist Costume -- Designer -- Peggy Hamilton: Queen of Filmland Fashion -- Conclusion: The Birth of Hollywood Glamour -- Appendix A. Filmographies for Lucile and Peggy Hamilton
Summary
This is the first in-depth, book-length exploration of fashion in American silent film, offering fresh perspectives on the era that preceded the studio system as well as the evolution of Hollywood's distinctive brand of glamour. By the 1910s, the moving image was an integral part of everyday life and communicated fascinating, but as yet uninvestigated, ideas and ideals about fashionable dress. "Hollywood Before Glamour" will make new connections between the fashion and film industries, and fashion will be the lens through which the reader will gain new insights into early cinema and contemporary meanings of dress
