Crystal Studded Victorian Trade Card T-Shirts

NEW EXCLUSIVE! Luxestar Apparel presents Swarovski Crystal Studded Victorian Trade Card T-Shirts!

Over a century ago, during the Victorian era, one of the favorite pastimes was collecting small, illustrated advertising cards that collectors now refer to as trade cards. By the 1880s, trade cards had become a widely accepted method of advertising American business products and services, and a trip to the store often brought back some of these attractive, brightly colored cards to be pasted into a scrapbook. They are believed to be the inspiration for what many children and other collectors have collected throughout history. Some of the products most heavily advertised by trade cards were medicine and pharmaceuticals, foods, tobaccos, fashion, toiletries, and, general household items.

The popularity of trade cards peaked in the late 19th century, later becoming obsolete when magazine advertisements joined the mainstream.

Although trade card collecting began over a century ago, today's interest in trade cards began only in the past few decades. Some trade cards now sell for up to thousands of dollars.

Here at Luxestar Apparel we have dazzled up some of our favorite trade card designs from the past two centuries, shimmering with Swarovski Austrian crystals!