Trade card for Universal Fashion Company

trade card

Trade card for Universal Fashion Company; color lithograph on card by Wemple & Company, New York, of boy and girl on beach with toy boat; printed upper right in globe "UNIVERSAL/ FASHION COMPANY/ LONDON, PARIS/ &/ NEW YORK", and lower left "WEMPLE & COMPANY NEW YORK."; printed on back "MISS NETTIE H. BEEBE,/ (Formerly of Hartford,)/ 212 Main Street, MIddleton, Conn./ DRESS & CLOAK-MAKER,/ Cutting and Fitting a Specialty./ All the Latest New York Styles. Fashionable Dressmaking,/ ALL WORK WARRANTED. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED./ AGENCY FOR THE/ UNIVERSAL FASHION COMPANY'S PERFECT-FITTING PATTERNS." and "395". F. Calabretta notes: Images of boys wearing sailor suits and playing with toy boats are very common in popular American art. This example demonstrates the fact that sailor suits were not always blue.