Description: 1840 WOMEN FASHION ROMANTIC VICTORIAN PERIOD ELLEN LOUISE DEMOREST PRINT 35561 DATE OF THIS ** ORIGINAL ** ITEM: 1840THIS IS EITHER A FASHION PRINT OR A FASHION ADVERTISEMENT FROM AN ORIGINAL PERIODICAL/MAGAZINE. YOU MAY SEE A BLACK BOX IN THE PHOTO, THIS RESTS ON TOP OF ITEM TO COVER THE PERIODICAL NAME, DOES NOT AFFECT QUALITY OR CONDITION - IT IS JUST FOR THE PHOTO. PLEASE LOOK OVER THE ITEM CAREFULLY FOR SIZE AND CONDITION! ILLUSTRATOR/ARTIST: SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS/DESCRIPTIVE WORDS: Ellen Louise Demorest (née Curtis, November 15, 1824 – August 10, 1898) was an American businesswoman, fashion arbiter and milliner, widely credited for inventing mass-produced tissue-paper dressmaking patterns. With her husband, William Jennings Demorest, she established a company to sell the patterns, which were adaptations of the latest French fashions, and a magazine to promote them in 1860. Her dressmaking patterns made French styles accessible to ordinary women, thus greatly influencing US fashion. Demorest was born November 15, 1824, in Schuylerville, New York. She was the second of eight children born to Electra Abel Curtis and Henry D. Curtis. Her father was a farmer and the owner of a men's hat factory. At eighteen, Demorest set up a millinery shop in Saratoga Springs with the help of her father. After a year, she moved her business to Troy before relocating again to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In 1858, she married William Jennings Demorest, a thirty-six year old widower with two children. Demorest gave birth to a son in 1859 and a daughter in 1865. Early in their marriage, the Demorests ran a Philadelphia emporium. Ellen and her sister Kate were working on a system of simplified dress making when they saw the Demorest's African-American maid cutting a dress pattern out of brown paper. Ellen was inspired by the idea to create tissue paper patterns of fashionable garments for the home sewer. The family relocated to New York and began manufacturing patterns. In the fall of 1860, they launched a quarterly magazine, Mme. Demorest’s Mirror of Fashions. They also opened a women's fashion emporium at 473 Broadway. Mme. Demorest’s Mirror of Fashions and Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly Magazine soon reached a circulation of 60,00]The magazine was well-timed, coming as sewing machines became common in middle-class homes. Articles in the Mirror of Fashions gave home sewers helpful tips and encouraged readers to believe in their own ability. Readers felt "emancipated... from dependence on milliners and dressmakers." The fashions worn by Empress Eugenie were of particular interest to the readers of Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly Magazine and Mme. Demorest’s Mirror of Fashions. Correspondents reported on every dress the Empress wore and her gowns were reproduced for a semi-annual New York show. Journalist and women's rights advocate Jane Cunningham Croly edited Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly Magazine from 1860 to 1887. Under her leadership, Demorest’s Monthly advocated for female education and employment. Croly promoted female accomplishment with a monthly "What Women Are Doing" column. The column claimed to take "note of every woman rancher, banker, dentist or businesswoman... who came to light in a distinctive way in any part of the country." Other contributors included Louisa May Alcott, Theodore Dreiser, and Robert Louis Stevenson. In 1863, Ellen designed the wedding trousseau of circus performer Lavinia Warren. In 1876, the year of their height in popularity, the Demorests' company distributed and sold over 3 million patterns. Offices in Europe, Canada and Cuba distributed Demorest patterns. In 1876, Demorest turned her attention to philanthropy. Along with Jane Cunningham Croly, Ellen was a founding member of Sorosis, the first professional women's club in the United States. FASHION WOMEN CLOTHING DRESS TREND SEWING STYLE ADVERT SIZE: SEE RULER SIDES IN PHOTO FOR DIMENSIONS ( ALL DIMENSIONS IN INCHES) **For multiple purchases please ASK FOR + wait for our combined invoice. Shipping discount are ONLY available with this method. Thank You. At BRANCHWATER BOOKS we look for rare & unusual ADVERTISING, COVERS + PRINTS of commercial graphics from throughout the world. Our AD's and COVER'S are ORIGINAL and 100% guaranteed --- (we code all our items to insure authenticity) ---- we stand behind this. As graphic collectors ourselves, we take great pride in doing the best job we can to preserve and extend the wonderful historic graphics of the past. 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