This magazine is “The Delineator: A Journal of Fashion, Culture, and Fine Arts“. It was published by the Butterick Publishing Company. The original cover price was only 15 cents!

This magazine was noted for lovely fashion illustrations. Some issues even had color plates. In the Delineator, you will find pictures of many garments that Butterick actually made patterns for. So if you find an outfit you like when you look through the magazine, there is a chance you could find it on ebay (or at a flea market or antique store). I guess in a way this publication was sort of like the Victorian version of “Butterick Patterns”, only a much better version because it had so much more than just fashion.

View More in-Depth Descriptions and Photos of Individual Issues of The Delineator Magazine:

Here is a list of issues of the Delineator Magazine that I have owned. Clicking these links will take you to descriptions of each issue, including information about the crochet and needlework patterns they contained, plus photographs of the fashion illustrations, and information about the articles, ads and other contents.

• The Delineator September 1892
• The Delineator April 1895
• The Delineator May 1895
• The Delineator March 1896
• The Delineator March 1896
• The Delineator June 1898
• The Delineator March 1902 
• The Delineator October 1909
• The Delineator December 1909
• The Delineator October 1916
• The Delineator February 1917
• The Delineator July 1914
• The Delineator January 1930

Some Current Ebay Auctions for The Delineator Magazine:

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