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HBC has developed information on the following department stores, clothing retailers, and mail order companies. We are just beginning to gather information on the individual stores. HBC would be interested in reader comments about the stores in their countries. We are interested in childhood memories as well as the current status of the stores. Most retailers did not do catalogs. of any importnce. this of course impacts our ability to illustrate the pages. For the most part, the stores that did do catalogs did rather sallm ones. The major catalogs were Sears and Montgomery Wards, but clothing was only a part of the offerings, although a mall part. Early catalogs were not vey effective until the turn-of the 20th century, illustrations were crude and photograohs coulod not be inepebsuve dusolayed.. (enhravings had ti be made.) But with the advances of photolthography, catalogs could display the goods very effectively. Sears and Wards were catalog stors that subsequetly began opening actual stores. Retailers mostly they adverrtised in newspapers. But we see some store catalogs. With the apoearance of the internet at the turn-of-the 21st century, retailers begun to create on-line catalogs, of course nothing like Sears and Wards.
Navigate the Boys' Historical Clothing catalog/magazine pages:
[Return to the Main retail store page]
[Return to the Main store page]
[Fashion magazines and store page]
[Main photo/publishing page]
[Fashion magazines]
Navigate the Boys' Historical Clothing Web Site:
[Introduction]
[Activities]
[Biographies]
[Chronology]
[Clothing styles]
[Countries]
[Bibliographies]
[Contributions]
[FAQs]
[Glossaries]
[Images]
[Links]
[Registration]
[Tools]
[Boys' Clothing Home]
Navigate the Boys' Historical Clothing Web Site:
[Sailor suits]
[Sailor hats]
[Buster Brown suits]
[Eton suits]
[Rompers]
[Tunics]
[Smocks]
[Pinafores]
