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Magazines
A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles on various subjects.
Magazines are typically published weekly, biweekly, monthly, or quarterly, with a date on the cover that is in advance of the date it is actually published. They are often printed in color on coated paper.
Magazines usually have articles on popular topics of interest to the general public and are written at the reading level of most of the population. An academic periodical featuring scholarly articles written in a more specialist register is usually called a "journal." "Periodical" is the word usually used to describe magazines, journals, newspapers, newsletters, and anything else that is published in regular intervals for an indefinite period of time, but "Serial" is sometimes used, especially in librarianship.
Many weekend newspapers now incorporate magazine supplements with a magazine-like format.
The Gentleman's Magazine, first published in 1731, is considered to be the first general-interest magazine. The oldest magazine still in print is The Scots Magazine, which was first published in 1739. The most widely distributed magazine in the world is Reader's Digest (founded in 1922). Its worldwide circulation including all editions has reached 21 million copies and over 100 million readers. The Watchtower is the most widely distributed religious magazine in the world, with an average circulation of 26.4 million copies semimonthly in more than 150 languages.
In America, wearing Paris fashion ensured that others would recognize the wearer’s status as a cultivated and wealthy person, perhaps able to travel to Paris, certainly able to afford the best her own locality could provide, be it local cultural life or the best dressmaker in town.
No doubt many of their clients also subscribed to these magazines at home, but they were able in the shop to consult the magazines and could order a dress made from one of the sketches they saw illustrated.
As a result of their familiarity with fashionmagazines, by 1920 clients were asking for couturiers by name instead of favoring designs sewn and trimmed by Madame Tirocchi herself.
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