Errrr ... oopsie ?

[green_martha]

Did I just buy this ? Did I ? Mmmmh... COOL ! :D

After which, I HAD to be a good girl and make appointments with three different banks (one I must call back to get the actual appointment, but at least they have all my info), then tonight I finished binding the Kitty's corset (pictures coming) and scanning my latest Petit Echo de la Mode from April 15th, 1923. It even includes a crochet pattern. I'm still a lot behind (and I haven't made a proper webpage to go with said magazine, booooooo !) but I'm making slow progress in sharing my evergrowing collection of fashion magazines.

Tonight, the Google Adds I get to see on my LJ, which I normally don't even look at, offer me tonight to :
- discover a french journalling software
- learn more about the technologies involved in endoscopy
- answer my questions about mood disorders and depression
- make outlook templates
- meet jewish singles
Which, since I have two LJs, don't plan to get an endoscopy soon, feel pretty happy and balanced, have been using linux for years now, and am an engaged christian-pagan-kitty-worshipper undefined something, is rather amusing.

Comments

[editrene.livejournal.com]

OoooOOOh... yours has got COLOUR pages!! PRETTY!!

[green-martha.livejournal.com]

Yes, color ! I've only seen two of those come up on eBay with color pages yet. But then, I'm not looking *all the time*, or I'd be ruined by now.

[editrene.livejournal.com]

So since you have a Mode Illustree habit (!), perhaps you can tell me - are the colour pages separate from the main magazine? This is (another) stupid question, but - looking at my 1886 Mode Illustree album, and comparing it to the JoAnne Olian book that is all supposedly from 1886 issues of LMI, the dresses in the book (in colour) are not in the magazines, even in black and white. So were there separate versions of the magazine, some with added-extra colour plates and some that were just black and white, which didn't feature those dresses at all (if that makes sense)?

[green-martha.livejournal.com]

So since you have a Mode Illustree habit (!)

I know, I'm an addict ! :)
If I look at one of my 1883 magazines, it says just under the title :
Le numéro, vendu séparément,
25 centimes
avec une planche de patrons : 50 centimes

Le numéro seul avec une gravure coloriée
50 centimes
avec une planche de patrons : 75 centimes"

So you could either buy just the magazine (25 centimes), the magazine with the patterns (50 centimes), the magazine with the separate colored fashion plate but without the patterns (50 centimes), or with both the fashion plate and the patterns (75 centimes). The fashion plates (I have some of them too) were the same size as the magazine, but printed on much sturdier paper, and bore no precise description of the dress other than the name of the dressmaker. The dresses seem to be different form the ones featured in the magazine itself.
Magazines with colored pictures embedded seem much rarer, I haven't seen any before 1898 yet. The La Mode and Le petit Echo de la Mode magazines I have from the 1910s and 1920s have both a colored first page and a colored double page in the middle. Funnily enough, the Mode Illustrée ones from 1920 are all in B&W. I remember seeing a lot of colored first pages on magazines dating from the turn of the century.

[editrene.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's really helpful and makes a lot of sense, thank you!

[green-martha.livejournal.com]

You're welcome !