Fashion Magazine Scans
Gwenda Arguin
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Hi! With the recent Teen Vogue article by Lauren Duca about Donald Trump's gaslighting, there has been renewed interest in the Sassy classic "What the Heck are We Doing in the Persian Gulf?" Do you have the February 1991 issue of Sassy on hand, and can you put scans of the article up or send them to an interested party?
hello! do you have any scans of the back page comic strip in Sassy? I think it was set at a Hot Dog on a Stick, and there was a character called Althea? I don't know if I'm going crazy, but I'm trying to track it down. Any help would be great. Thank you again!
I really like this fashion spread from the August 1994 issue because the models (credited as Shawna and Roberto) remind me of Shannyn Sossamon and Chris Cornell respectively. It's also a good reminder that FLEECE doesn't have to mean the same old plain jane navy blue North Face sweater, okay ladies.
PLEASE do not remove the Flickr attribution or re-upload this photo set. Remy LeBeau worked very hard to track down this magazine and share these images with us! I know there is very little I can do to stop you from doing these things but heed my words - stealing is not the Sassy Magazine way.
I also want to highlight all the stuff that Michiel scanned: various tailoring guides (many for men!) 1910-1951, mostly Dutch, Belgian and German. He also scanned Das Buch der Hausschneiderei which is a book from my own collectiona nd has very detailed instructions on how to make a wardrobe for a lady in 1914.
This is a resource I stumbled upon by accident but it is one of my favourites! They have a broad variety of German, French, and Austrian fashion journals that spans over more than a century, very high quality. I specifically recommend checking out the scans of Der Bazar and especially the issues from the 1890s, they often have pattern scans as well.
So far this is the only source I could find for De Gracieuse Magazines. The magazine scans are an okay quality, for the patterns it can be an issue. I also find the organisation a bit annoying since every page is uploaded separately instead of being clustered together in magazines (which would make a lot more sense). But it is possible to find what you need by using the filter and search function. Use the filter function on the left to filter specific years (they have illustrations from 1864 onwards).
Whatever you want, this website probably has it: Tons of tailoring guides, fashion plates, fashion magazines, catalogues, even more specific things such as footwear or jewellery. The focus is on American publications, however there are also European publications.
As some of you may know, I have my own steadily growing collection of historical fashion magazines, many of which are with patterns. As of February 2023, this collection consists of about 150 magazines and two bound books with magazines, more than half of them have patterns. They are mostly German, Austrian, French and Belgian (e. g. La Mode Illustre, Mode und Haus, Wiener Mode, etc.).
Back in 2011, I got to borrow this World War II Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC and later WAC) uniform with matching garrison cap from a local historical society.This was my first shoot for the Carondelet Historical Society, and the first picture from this first shoot is my favorite.
Here are some baby photos from the 1800s, that were mixed in with an envelop! I don't think that the baby photo, by St. Louis Photographer Bell Studios, came in the envelop as it's postmarked from Miss A. Schenkel in Detroit (and sent to Henry Kellogg St. Louis). Whatever correspondence it once contained has been lost. The baby, presumably E..? Warren Kellogg, looks rather crazy in the eyes, giving that unfocused gaze just past the camera.
These fashion illustrations show what women wore in 1913, and what was in style. Apparently, embroideries were the rule, and placed where there was the smallest excuse for them. This illustration shows three fashionable early 1900s women and a little girl. On the right side is an advertisement for a Venus adjustable dress form. The text includes detailed descriptions and how to order the dress patterns to make the fashions the models illustrated are wearing.
It appears as if bus service to the Muny at Forest Park during World War II was very comprehensive! Bus service extended as far as Gravois and Hampton, Grand and Holly Hills, 3rd and Washington (downtown), Florissant and Kingshighway, and Delmar and DeBalviere... a pretty wide radius!Also in these last few pages of the 1943 St Louis Municipal Opera program, besides ads, was the list of large donors who gave to the Municipal Theatre Associations guarantee fund. It reads like a long list of old St. Louis society's who's-who and includes Adolphus Busch II and his son, August Buch (of the Anheuser-Busch brewery). It's interesting to see who the early supporters of the Muny were!
These hats belonged to the Carondelet Historical Society. The pink dress was from the 1980s and we got it for $2 at the thrift shop next door. The green cloak she's wearing is from the 1920s.This mixed wardrobe was perfect inspiration for some very emotive, classic, portraits.
I am so excited to get The Language of Fashion by Mary Brooks Picken (1938 edition) as an early Christmas present! I am even more thrilled by my friend's thoughtfulness. Even more excited that this book's copyright has apparently expired (according to my search on the U.S. government copyright site).... so I can scan the pages!
I believe that these are pictures of Confederate Soldiers from the Civil War. This album also included pictures of women, children, and non-uniformed men. I was told that all these people were from St. Louis, or relatives of people living in St. Louis. Such fascinating untold stories... I'll let these pictures speak for themselves!
I imagine this 1940s couple getting this car as a gift, or the husband giving it to his wife before he leaves back to fighting overseas. She looks so proud and you can see them posed together, with him in his military uniform. What cute WWII-era Kodachrome slides!
Here's a 1920s article on gifts to give at Christmas. Because it's from a fashion magazine, ofcourse the gifts are all wearable. Flapper hats and purses and accessories. A friend of mine scanned these pages from his personal collection, or had them scanned, and then died. I'm sorry.
Here are three sketches by Charles Dana Gibson of lovely ladies playing musical instruments. A harpist, a cellist, and a fiddler. These prints are titled:The Wearin of the Green - woman playing a harpThen You'll Remember Me - woman playing a celloThe Sweetest Story Ever Told - woman playing a violin
Zizi V. totally owned the WWII WAC uniform. She was my third and last model to wear it. My first retro shoot with Anita had all the awkwardness of a first-time (everything), which made for very authentic emotions. With this third shoot in the WAC uniform, I was more confident and explored beyond the studio to the front room and outdoors (where the natural light was perfect). We played more with the set, even in the studio, and the pictures just turned out different. I think that the outdoor and natural light photos turned out looking like 1940s era snapshots and candids.
Ferro Ashley is not your typical fashionista! Social media shy but always camera ready, her outfits would fit right in with the cool kids from FRUiTS. We sat down with Ferro to talk about FRUiTS fashion, social media and her music.
The site began as a personal diary to archive my outfits and be able to look back on them. I had left social media and wanted to build a little space for myself online where I had full creative control and could still put things out into the internet without the mental baggage that comes with [social media] platforms with notifications and followers.
Photography and design were interests of mine long before I ever dove into the j-fashion rabbit hole. Whilst I fell in love with the clothes, I also fell for the magazines, the street snaps, and the editorials. So, I was inspired to attempt documenting my outfits in the same way.
AnOther Magazine was one of the publications I would constantly revert to back when I was a teenager. It just reminds me so much of SoHo magazine shops, where I would often venture to after school just to have a scan through some of its pages. Magazines like AnOther, Dazed, and i-D have really nurtured my love for writing about fashion, art, and culture.
To me, atmospheric, dynamic, and transformative editorials are synonymous with AnOther Magazine. This subversive and dreamy set of images by Nick Knight and Katy England has always stuck with me; the blend of perversion and violence with decadence and couture, which the model, Tessa Kuragi, completely embodies will always be one of my favourites.
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