Berlin writer and translator Franz Hessel is remembered as one of the city’s greatest flaneurs. In Spazieren in Berlin (1929), he commented on women’s fashions in the city: “Is what people are beginning to declare so loudly true – that, when it comes to elegance, Berlin's women can compete with the best women in Europe? We don’t want to nit-pick about how exactly. It should be enough to see these crowds of young and and even younger girls, this parade of youth and freshness in tight, well-fitting clothes and little hats oozing a lock of hair, the elastic strides of their long legs, to be convinced that Berlin is well on its way to becoming an elegant city.” This photograph by Friedrich Seidenstücker (1882-1966), who became known for his Berlin street scenes and for his images of Berlin's post-World War II ruins, shows a fashionably dressed young woman, whose legs clearly attracted the photographer's attention while she jumped over a puddle.