Unsuitable: a history of lesbian fashion

Introduction

Part One: We Were Always Here

1. Tunics and Violets: Sappho and Her Afterlives

2. Christina of Sweden, Girl King

3. Anne Lister: Diaries and Dress

4. Literary Lovers: 1910s Japan

Part Two: Paris to Harlem: The Lesbian 1920s

5. Paris Lesbos: The Sapphic Capital

6. The Queer Modernism of British Vogue

7. The Complete Appearance of a Lady: Trans Lesbians in Weimar Berlin

8. In the Life: Lady Lovers of the Harlem Renaissance

Part Three: A Butch/Femme Interlude

9. Looking 'Right': The Mid-Century Lesbian Bar

10. A Note on Femmes

Part Four: Miraculous Masculinity

11. Breeches Roles and Female Husbands: Cross-Dressed Britain in the 1700s

12. Variety: Music Hall, Male Impersonation and a Turning Century

13. Gladys Bentley: A Sartorial History

14. Stormé DeLarverie and the Dawn of the Drag King

Part Five: Lesbian Politics, Political Lesbians

15. The Lesbian Threat of the Suffragettes

16. Uniforms of the Second Wave: Lesbian Feminist Dress Codes

17. T-Shirts: The Billboards of the Body

18. The Fashion of Liberation

Afterword