In writing the last entry on the Fifth Avenue Hotel, I couldn’t stop admiring the cover of the June 1896 magazine that my source article came from. The magazine was the Ladies Home Journal, and I happen to have a handful of these magazines from the late nineteenth century. The covers are absolutely gorgeous, and [...]
In reading the June 1896 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal, I came across a fascinating article about how a large hotel was run. The hotel was the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City, and after doing some quick research, I discovered that it was a very well-known and popular hotel at around the turn [...]
Above is an image of an elegant hairstyle from the mid-nineteenth century, the “Greek Coiffure.” It comes from an 1866 issue of Godey’s Lady’s Book, and according to the little blurb of writing in the center of the illustration, “This coiffure requires no frisettes, and is both simple and elegant.” (I actually had no clue [...]
Also filed in 1889 and earlier, 1901-1910, beauty, magazine
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Tagged 1866, 1870, 1899, 1910, godey's lady's book, hair, mccall's, peterson's, victorian
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This snippet on “How to Take Measures for Patterns” ties in with yesterday’s entry on the purple princess gown. Like the illustration for that gown (which you were invited to send in for a pattern to make), this illustration comes out of the October 1899 issue of McCall’s magazine. McCall’s was known for the many [...]
From the October 1899 issue of McCall’s magazine comes this pattern for a ladies’ purple cloth princess costume.
From the magazine:
“Princess gowns are to be very fashionable this season, and our model displays a beautiful figure to great advantage. It is cut perfectly tight-fitting and simply trimmed with straps of velvet on the bust and skirt. [...]
I work for a home medical equipment company, so naturally an ad about vintage home medical equipment was going to catch my eye! Above, you can see a 1910 ad (from the September 15 edition of Ladies’ Home Journal) featuring the Wallace Adjustable Invalid Bed. The ad boasted that “the Wallace Adjustable Bed is the [...]
As seen in an earlier entry, women in the early part of the century did work outside of the home, in business settings. However, a great majority of middle-class married women worked inside the home. With or without a maid, there was plenty of cleaning and physical labor to do in order to keep the [...]
image above - postcard from the What We Wore: Hard Hats to High Heels exhibit at the Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh.
Because I am from Pittsburgh and my family still lives there, twice a year or so we make the trip out from New Jersey for a long weekend to visit them. On our latest trip, [...]
The beautiful hats in the image above come from the September 1900 issue of The Delineator magazine. At this time, the Delineator was basically a fashion magazine and its pages are filled with gorgeous illustrations and patterns. The magazine also goes into detail on most of the fashions it presents; for example, here is what [...]
This is a vintage advertising card from the Shannahan shoe shop in Milford, New Hampshire. I don’t know how old it is, unfortunately, or even how long the shoe shop was in business. Believe me, I did try googling and all of the other research tricks I know! But that didn’t matter when I bought [...]
