The Fashion for Full Plates
Thanksgiving was a tradition, but not yet a national holiday, when one woman asked President Lincoln to make it official. Thanks to her efforts, in the dark days of 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, the whole nation had a holiday on the last Thursday of November. Presidential proclamations of thanksgiving had taken place since Washington, often in celebration of a military victory. A few states had made Thanksgiving official. But to make it a holiday for all, it took three decades of lobbying by pioneering journalist Sarah Josepha Hale.
As the editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, Hale published "fashion plates." Nothing to do with food, these plates were hand-colored illustrations of the best and most current clothes.
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