Fashion Plate Friday: Something New and Bigger

Godey's Lady's Book introduced something new to American fashion plates in December of 1860: fold out fashion plates.  In Godey's and other magazines, single page fashion plates had been appearing for decades, but two page engravings were something new.  In the next few years, other magazines caught on to these larger embellishments with Madame Demorest's Mirror of Fashion publishing engravings up to four pages as early as 1862.