The illustrated Paris fashion periodical Journal des dames et des modes launched, helping establish the recurring mix of fashion commentary and engraved plates that later 19th-century journals would expand and industrialize.
Petit courrier des dames began publication, part of a boom in French fashion periodicals that combined text with regular plates and helped routinize the rapid diffusion of Paris styles.
The weekly Paris fashion magazine Le Follet started publication, becoming a durable competitor in the expanding French illustrated-fashion press that, from the 1820s onward, eroded earlier monopolies in fashion reporting.
Louis A. Godey established Godey’s Lady’s Book (later a major U.S. women’s magazine), building an influential platform where fashion plates, domestic advice, and literature circulated together at scale.
Godey purchased the Boston Ladies’ Magazine and brought editor Sarah Josepha Hale to lead the combined publication, helping drive a longer-term editorial model pairing fashion coverage with American-authored content.
After more than four decades, Journal des dames et des modes ceased publication, marking a shift from early, near-dominant channels of Paris fashion toward a crowded field of specialized and competing titles.
Charles J. Peterson launched a women’s magazine positioned as a lower-priced competitor to Godey’s, underscoring how fashion plates and women’s-periodical formats had become a viable mass-market business in the U.S.
Adolphe Goubaud founded Le Moniteur de la Mode, a title associated with patterns and fashion guidance that would later be repurposed across borders through publishing partnerships.
The monthly Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine launched in Britain, combining domestic instruction with fashion content and eventually helping broaden the audience for patterns and illustrated fashion beyond elite circles.
The Berlin-based fashion magazine Der Bazar debuted and later became a major hub for international reuse of fashion imagery, influencing cross-national content sharing that characterized mid-to-late 19th-century fashion journalism.
Emmeline Raymond founded La Mode Illustrée (Journal de la famille), a widely read illustrated fashion magazine known for high-quality images and patterns—one of the era’s most internationally visible French titles.
A publishing partnership linked Le Moniteur de la Mode with The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, and Moniteur dress patterns were reused in the English title—an example of transnational fashion-media syndication.
The first issue of Harper’s Bazar appeared in New York, bringing a major fashion-centered women’s periodical into the U.S. market and drawing on transatlantic models for illustrated fashion journalism.
The rise of fashion periodicals: Le Moniteur de la Mode, Godey's Lady's Book, and 19th-century journals (c. 1820–1890)
