 The introduction of an educated middle class also allowed for a more fashion-conscious population that became devoted to fashion plate publications.By the 1830s, U.S. magazines began to include their own fashion plates, although these were often derived from imported French originals.The most popular magazines of the antebellum period, including "Godey's Lady's Book" and its competitors, particularly "Graham's Magazine" and "Peterson's Magazine", boasted about the quality of their fashion plates.