After the Civil War the upper middle class in America expanded and became increasingly style-conscious. Visiting European royalty as well as American women returning from the International Exhibition in Paris in 1867 stimulated fashion awareness -- and it was in this climate that the magazine Harper's Bazar flowered. Dedicated to being -A repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction, - it brought to American women inside glimpses of the very latest European and American fashions, all in carefully detailed engravings. It was much the finest source for high fashion for this...
After the Civil War the upper middle class in America expanded and became increasingly style-conscious. Visiting European royalty as well as American ...