{
  "collection": "historyFashionDesign",
  "title": "History of Fashion Design: Post-War German Pattern & Fashion Magazines (1948–1959)",
  "languages": ["de", "en", "pl"],
  "author": "Gerd Graßhoff",
  "affiliation": "Philosophisches Institut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · Forschungsinstitut des Deutschen Museums, München",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-18",
  "source_archive": "scans/1948-09-01_Schnittmuster_Bogen.pdf",
  "issues": [
    {
      "plate": 1,
      "slug": "effi-schnitte-1948",
      "title": "Effi Schnitte — Winter Katalog",
      "subtitle": "mit Schnittmuster-Bogen für 20 Modelle",
      "issue_designation": "Saisonheft / Winter-Katalog 1948/49",
      "date_iso": "1948-09",
      "date_display": "September 1948 (Winter Season 1948/49)",
      "manuscript_note": "09.1948 (upper left margin, ink/pencil)",
      "publisher": "Effi-Moden-Verlag (Elfriede Breuer, financed by Franz Burda)",
      "place": "Lahr (Schwarzwald), French Occupation Zone",
      "price": "DM 1.—",
      "pattern_supplement": "1 Schnittmuster-Bogen für 20 Modelle",
      "pattern_codes": ["* K 297", "B 2287", "R 2012", "JK 1030", "K 76", "* K 298 H", "* WK 2579"],
      "distribution_size": "Small regional/zonal start-up print run (estimated 20,000–45,000 copies; pre-takeover deficit phase with 48 staff by 1949)",
      "cover_medium": "Color gouache / watercolor fashion illustration",
      "page_url": "pages/effi-schnitte-1948.html",
      "scan_pdf": "scans/page-1.pdf",
      "cover_jpg": "assets/img/cover-1.jpg",
      "cover_png": "assets/img/cover-1.png"
    },
    {
      "plate": 2,
      "slug": "effi-moden-nr7-1949",
      "title": "Effi moden",
      "subtitle": "Ihre praktische Modenzeitung – mit allen Modellen auf 2 Schnittbogen!",
      "issue_designation": "Heft Nr. 7",
      "date_iso": "1949-07",
      "date_display": "July 1949 (Issue No. 7 of 1949)",
      "manuscript_note": null,
      "publisher": "Verlag Effi Moden (Elfriede Breuer)",
      "place": "Lahr (Schwarzwald), Baden / FRG",
      "price": "1.20 D.M. zuzügl. Bestellg.",
      "pattern_supplement": "2 Schnittbogen (all models included)",
      "pattern_codes": ["Effi-Modell K 423", "Effi-Modell K 424"],
      "distribution_size": "ca. 40,000–65,000 copies (shortly before Aenne Burda's takeover and expansion to 100,000 copies)",
      "cover_medium": "Color outdoor photography (two models by a lake)",
      "page_url": "pages/effi-moden-nr7-1949.html",
      "scan_pdf": "scans/page-2.pdf",
      "cover_jpg": "assets/img/cover-2.jpg",
      "cover_png": "assets/img/cover-2.png"
    },
    {
      "plate": 3,
      "slug": "guter-rat-587-1959",
      "title": "Guter Rat für heute und morgen",
      "subtitle": "Frühjahr · mit Schnittmusterbogen",
      "issue_designation": "Bestellnr. 587 (Frühjahr)",
      "date_iso": "1959-03",
      "date_display": "Spring 1959 (following Bestellnr. 586, Winter 1958)",
      "manuscript_note": null,
      "publisher": "Verlag für die Frau · Leipzig (formerly Verlag Otto Beyer)",
      "place": "Leipzig, German Democratic Republic (GDR)",
      "price": "DM 1.25 (DM der Deutschen Notenbank)",
      "pattern_supplement": "Beiliegender Schnittmusterbogen (included up to 1962)",
      "pattern_codes": ["BESTELLNR. 587"],
      "distribution_size": "ca. 768,500 copies per quarterly issue (GDR mass circulation; high demand / 'Bückware')",
      "cover_medium": "Color outdoor portrait photography before Neues Rathaus, Leipzig",
      "page_url": "pages/guter-rat-587-1959.html",
      "scan_pdf": "scans/page-3.pdf",
      "cover_jpg": "assets/img/cover-3.jpg",
      "cover_png": "assets/img/cover-3.png"
    },
    {
      "plate": 4,
      "slug": "favorit-nr10-1949",
      "title": "favorit — Das Modenblatt (Früher Effi Moden)",
      "subtitle": "Alle Modelle auf 2 Schnittbogen! · Mit Schnittgutschein über 40 Pf.",
      "issue_designation": "Nr. 10",
      "date_iso": "1949-10-01",
      "date_display": "1 October 1949 (inaugural 'Favorit' issue; pencil note '4.12.48' at top left)",
      "manuscript_note": "4.12.48 (upper left margin, retrospective collector/owner pencil note)",
      "publisher": "Favorit-Verlag / Aenne Burda (succeeding Effi-Moden-Verlag)",
      "place": "Lahr / Offenburg (Baden), Federal Republic of Germany",
      "price": "Einzelpreis DM 1.40 · Im Abonnement DM 1.20 zuzügl. ortsübliche Bestellgebühr",
      "pattern_supplement": "2 Schnittbogen + 40 Pf. Schnittgutschein",
      "pattern_codes": ["FAVORIT-SCHNITT JK 1082"],
      "distribution_size": "ca. 65,000–100,000 copies (transitional 3-issue bridge Oct–Dec 1949; 100,000 copies reached with 'Burda Moden' Nr. 1 in Jan 1950)",
      "cover_medium": "Color studio portrait photography with typographic banners",
      "page_url": "pages/favorit-nr10-1949.html",
      "scan_pdf": "scans/page-4.pdf",
      "cover_jpg": "assets/img/cover-4.jpg",
      "cover_png": "assets/img/cover-4.png"
    },
    {
      "plate": 5,
      "slug": "modenschau-nr45-lyon",
      "title": "MODENSCHAU",
      "subtitle": "Alle Modelle auf 2 Schnittbogen",
      "issue_designation": "Nr. 45 (post-war sequence)",
      "date_iso": "1955",
      "date_display": "ca. 1955–1956 (post-1947 license sequence: Nr. 16 ≈ 1951, Nr. 34 = 1954)",
      "manuscript_note": null,
      "publisher": "Verlag Gustav Lyon, Berlin",
      "place": "Berlin (founded 1842; post-war East Berlin license ca. 1947–1963)",
      "price": "DM 2.—",
      "pattern_supplement": "2 Schnittbogen (all models included)",
      "pattern_codes": ["J 4558", "J 4485", "3 4486"],
      "distribution_size": "ca. 50,000–100,000 copies (Berlin/GDR licensed fashion periodical; absorbed into Verlag für die Frau in 1963)",
      "cover_medium": "Color salon fashion illustration",
      "page_url": "pages/modenschau-nr45-lyon.html",
      "scan_pdf": "scans/page-5.pdf",
      "cover_jpg": "assets/img/cover-5.jpg",
      "cover_png": "assets/img/cover-5.png"
    },
    {
      "plate": 6,
      "slug": "guter-rat-584-1958",
      "title": "Guter Rat für heute und morgen",
      "subtitle": "Sommer · mit Schnittmusterbogen",
      "issue_designation": "Bestellnr. 584 (Sommer)",
      "date_iso": "1958-06",
      "date_display": "Summer 1958 (two quarterly steps before Bestellnr. 586, Winter 1958)",
      "manuscript_note": null,
      "publisher": "Verlag für die Frau · Leipzig (formerly Verlag Otto Beyer)",
      "place": "Leipzig, German Democratic Republic (GDR)",
      "price": "DM 1.25 (DM der Deutschen Notenbank)",
      "pattern_supplement": "Beiliegender Schnittmusterbogen (included up to 1962; sheet not in this scan)",
      "pattern_codes": ["BESTELLNR. 584"],
      "distribution_size": "Series quarterly scale of ca. 768,500 copies; no separate figure is printed on this cover",
      "cover_medium": "Color outdoor portrait in a meadow, with a wire-haired terrier",
      "page_url": "pages/guter-rat-584-1958.html",
      "scan_pdf": "scans/page-6.pdf",
      "cover_jpg": "assets/img/cover-6.jpg",
      "cover_png": "assets/img/cover-6.png"
    }
  ]
}
