Ellen Curtis Demorest
American publisher and businesswoman · United States · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1824 to 1898 · aged 73
Ellen Louise Demorest was an American businesswoman, fashion arbiter, and milliner, widely credited for inventing mass-produced tissue-paper dressmaking patterns.
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In 1860, with her husband, William Jennings Demorest, she established a company to sell the patterns, which were adaptations of the latest French fashions, and a magazine to promote them. Her dressmaking patterns made French styles accessible to ordinary women, thus greatly influencing US fashion.
