Starting a new feature in the blog this week – a sort of sneak preview of some of the items in the archives – that have yet to come into the light of day. Or onto the website.
Petite Echo De La Mode was a lovely French fashion magazine that spanned a goodly number of years, all the way up through the 1950′s or early 1960′s I believe. The archives contain issues dating from 1896 through 1939. While the Library’s collection is by no means complete, there is a fairly decent selection from most of the years.
If you would like to know more about the history of the magazine AND you can read French – there is a website dedicated to the magazine.
The lovely pictures below come from our April 11, 1926 issue.
Wow those are fantastic! I rarely see 1920′s patterns or illustrations on the net, I will be looking out for these features.
Hello-I have just started a new website dedicated to vintage french fashion patterns and magazines
They are fantastic!
http://fabulousfrenchvintagepattern.com/
I am researching information to start a retro/vintage fashion website, but every pattern company I run across don’t want the patterns reproduced. They say their just for personal use. Some of these patterns run up to $300.00. That’s a huge amount of money, just to use a pattern for yourself. Are your patterns under the same restriction?