The book aims to illustrate that what is distinctive about any particular society is not the fact of its modernity, but rather its own unique debates about mode
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During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashi
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