Trace Fashion Journal
De Gracieuse manifested itself from 1862 to 1936 as an attractive style and needlework magazine, geared toward a rising viewers of style-conscious ladies. As I consider the faces and forms that have come earlier than me in these illustrations, my thoughts dwells perhaps longest on the youngsters, so just like the simpering children of the fashion magazines, fascinated with their frocks, marching by the facet of cat or dog with an eye to pose, searching from under their lace hats with unnatural smiles.
However the editor is a tragic figure too: As a lot a trope of the journal story as the dynamic, seemingly all-highly effective editor-in-chief is her final expendability by the hands of the men even increased up. There’s an arresting scene the top of The Satan Wears Prada the place Andy walks in on a makeup-free Miranda Priestly in her hotel room in Paris Style week, her face streaked in tears.
We are, for the first time, subscribing to one of those domestic journals wherein literature and dialogue of the types are neatly sandwiched together, and the place solely the utmost correctness in human conduct, as well as in human costume, is admitted.
We’ve got a formidable …