Cynthia Murray-Beliveau remembers making small talk with a guest at her parents' house in February 1978. They talked about ordinary things like a cross-stitch sampler that hung on the wall and the ...
Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick out their own ready-to-assemble home kit from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog and have the materials shipped directly to them, primarily by rail.
Within the American fashion landscape, the catalogue has a storied past dating back to Sears, Roebuck and Co’s first mail-order dispatch in 1888. J.Crew, meanwhile, released its first catalogue in ...