A new fictional feature entitled “The Girls I Knew,” by Emily Calvin Blake, debuted in Ladies Home Journal on September 1, 1910. The series follows impressionable Margaret and various friendships that influence her social, moral and sartorial…
The cover of November 1910's Ladies Home Journal depicts a confident young woman looking directly at the viewer. She is available yet demure. She is a type created by Harrison Fisher, whose "Fisher Girl," became a recognizable ideal of female…