Magazine article, Clothing styles

By: Dress & Vanity Fair Date: September 1913

Source: "Audacious Hats for Spineless Attitudes." Dress & Vanity Fair, September 1913, 21.

About the Publication: The Vanity Fair Publishing Co. began publishing Dress & Vanity Fair in 1913. A year later, Condé Nast Publications took over the magazine and changed the name to Vanity Fair. The magazine sought to be the American counterpart of British magazines like The Tatler and The Sketch, which covered the arts, culture, and society as well as fashion, and aimed to attract both male and female readers. It was aimed at sophisticated and wealthy people. Vanity Fair was absorbed by Vogue magazine in 1936, but it reappeared in 1983.

Introduction

Hats were an important accessory in the 1910s. A women was not seen in public...