Abstract
Between 1825 and 1850 fashion news shifted dramatically from textual description to pictorial illustration, fueled by the technical innovations of graphic artists and the rising demand of style-conscious consumers. Godey’s Lady’s Book and other periodicals promoted color fashion lithographs and engravings as a branch of American art and a tool to cultivate American taste and refinement. Research drawing from primary sources shows how fashion plates created a tension in visual culture between prints promoting fashion consumption for middle-class whites and satirizing it for the poor and for African Americans.
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