Fall & Winter 1921–1922 Perry, Dame & Co. Illustrated Mail-Order Catalog

Item Details

Original mail-order catalog issued by Perry, Dame & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, for the Fall & Winter season of 1921–1922. 45 pages, illustrated throughout with black-and-white images of women’s fashion offerings including outerwear, undergarments, shoes, hats, gloves, and nightwear. Textiles featured include cap silk, messaline, sateen, Canton silk, and crepe de chine. Also promoted are fur and faux-fur pieces such as an “Attractive Tiger Coney Set Outfit,” “Russian Bearskin,” and “Seal Plush”—items that reflect both aspirational fashion and early 20th-century materials marketing.

Includes offerings in “stout sizes,” signaling a transitional moment in U.S. consumer culture when manufacturers began targeting a wider range of body types. This catalog captures the material desires of post–World War I America, particularly for women navigating modernity, gendered fashion norms, and increased commercial choice in a rapidly urbanizing society.

Staple-bound in printed wraps. Marginal edge wear with some small flecks and soiling consistent with age. Damage to the spine and lower front cover. One internal page has a circular cut-out approximately 2.5 inches in diameter. Overall, structurally sound and complete, with all illustrations legible and intact.