Browse all of the American Decades series

"Flower Dresses for Lawn Fêtes"

Clothing styles

By: Ladies' Home Journal Date: July 1911

Source: Musselman, M.E., and the Editors, "Flower Dresses for Lawn Fêtes," Ladies' Home Journal, July 1911. About the Publication: Ladies' Home Journal had its beginnings in a newspaper column called "Women and Home" in the Philadelphia Tribune and Farmer. In 1883, the writers of the column, Cyrus Curtis and Louisa Knapp Curtis, began a supplement to the Tribune and Farmer called Ladies' Journal. He was the publisher, and she was the editor. The supplement quickly developed into a magazine, which was named Ladies' Home Journal and became a prototype for other women's magazines. It was still being published at the beginning of the twenty-first century. M.E. Musselman may have been Emma Musselman, a fashion illustrator for Ladies' Home Journal.

Introduction

Edward Bok, the...

[The entire page is 811 words long]

Join eNotes

The above is a free excerpt. Get total access to this content with the:

Lookup any word on eNotes with our dictionary. Highlight the word and press SHIFT + D for a definition, or SHIFT + T for a synonym.