Mccall's Magazine - Research Article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 3 pages of information about Mccall's Magazine.

Mccall's Magazine - Research Article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 3 pages of information about Mccall's Magazine.
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McCall's Magazine dates back to 1873, when James McCall, a Scottish tailor who had recently emigrated to the United States, created a publication called The Queen: Illustrating McCall's Bazaar Glove-Fitting Patterns as a vehicle for disseminating his stock of dressmaking patterns. Following McCall's death in 1884, the magazine was continued by his widow. George Bladworth and his wife later took over the management of the magazine and renamed it first The Queen of Fashion, then, in 1897, McCall's Magazine. During the first 40 years of its existence, the publication evolved from being exclusively a pattern-book to a more general but fairly obscure magazine; a century later, McCall's still published separate pattern and sew-it-yourself magazines, both print and online. The magazine's purchase, in 1913, by White, Weld & Co., which became the McCall Corporation under the direction of president Edward Alfred Simmons, signaled a dramatic change for the publication...

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