Hedwig Scherrer had already designed and built her personal studio house by the early age of 28. She was open-minded about her clothes, defended the comfort derived from wearing a trouser suit, and was also actively involved in the tradtional costume movement of the Canton of St. Gallen in the 1920s.
Regina Ullmann was on the move all her life. She lived in a wide variety of places, in a wide variety of cities - indeed, wherever someone offered her a home for a certain time. Her choice of clothes was probably unconscious: her friends called them "old-fashioned, made by a village dressmaker according to an old recipe".
