Original Victorian trade card for Demorest's Illustrated Monthly Magazine.
Ellen Louise Demorest was a US fashion arbiter. She was a successful milliner widely credited for inventing mass-produced tissue-paper dressmaking patterns. With her husband,
she established a company to sell the patterns, which were adaptations
of the latest French fashions, and a magazine to promote them (1860).
Her dressmaking patterns made French styles accessible to ordinary
women, thus greatly influencing US fashion.
Size: Approximately 3" x 4.75"
Very good condition -small amount of wear on lower corners see scans - feel free to ask any questions you may have prior to
buying.