victorians!

[holli]

I continue to not find much in the way of actual vintage clothes, but the universe has decided to make it up to me by providing incredibly cool non-clothing stuff. Which is how I ended up with a bound volume containing six months of Godey's Lady's Books from 1862.



It has fold-out colored fashion plates.



It also has embroidery patterns, serialized fiction, advice for newly married ladies, recipes, Chemistry For the Young, and a whole lot more. My favorite part, though, is the section with answers to reader questions.



They don't print the questions, so puzzling out what the reader actually asked is kind of a fun game.

Comments

[ankaret]

OMG. *envies madly*

[veejane]

Oh god once for a collection of American short stories (where you go to the original source if it's at all possible) I had to copy and hand-correct "The Fall of the House of Usher" from a photostat page of Godey's Lady's Book. That teeny tiny (slightly blurry) type! Those huge pages! My aching eyeballs!

On the upside, "The Fall of the House of Usher" fits on a single page of the magazine.