Else Raydt

Her older brother was the engineer Alfred Johann Hermann Raydt (12 February 1872 in Hanover – 20 March 1943 in Eltville).

[1] In the Stuttgarter Mitteilungen über Kunst und Gewerbe 1905/1906, dress designs by various female artists are discussed in detail.

[9] The Kunstmuseen Krefeld has a larger number of the artist's design drawings and showed a selection on the occasion of the exhibition Tailored for Freedom at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum (2018/19).

In Germany during the First World War, industry and associations, including the Deutscher Werkbund, endeavored to develop a nationally independent fashion.

[citation needed] In filling the position, Bosselt wanted teachers "who had a special gift for clothing, for being well and advantageously dressed, who had the weather for the times, for what was to come, might come."

The presentation embedded the dress show in a framework of music and literary performances and was widely discussed in contemporary journals.

"[12] She lamented the difference in earnings between the well-paid industry in Paris and the poor conditions in Berlin, where "an army of miserably paid home workers toiled for the triumph of French fashion.