Beau Dozier Portfolio : The growth of mass media also spread fashion information to the middle classes. Godey's Lady's Book, for example, a periodical first published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1830, brought sketches of French fashions to the United States. Developments in photography in the 1840s led to wide reproduction of photographs of elegant women. In 1860 Demorest brought out a magazine to promote her patterns. Mail-order catalogues spread recent styles to rural areas. In Canada the Toronto retailing firm Eaton’s issued its first catalogue in 1884.

        Dozier Producer : Another reason for the change in men’s fashions was the growing economic and cultural influence of England. By the 1770s, even before the French and American revolutions, plainer, simpler men’s clothing was perceived in England as more democratic and more natural. The outline narrowed, sleeves became longer and less full, and colors were generally less vivid.

        Beau Dozier Music : The corset continued to shape women’s fashion in the early 20th century, as it had during the last decades of the 19th. By 1900 a straight-front corset was in style. Also known as the S-shape and the sans ventre (no stomach) corset, it pushed the stomach in, which threw the bust forward and the rear end out, so women looked as though they were leaning forward. By 1908, however, the silhouette of dresses had become straighter and narrower. A longline corset, which smoothed the hips, came into fashion. Slender women began to abandon boned corsets altogether, replacing them with elasticized girdles and brassieres.