In today’s age, it is crazy to think that people years ago were unable to get a wide array of information at the touch of a button. Fashion has always been a crucial part of society and has been incorporated into everyone's lifetime. Today to get…
Throughout the history of human dress, there have been many different sources expressing the attire of the time, from art and sculpture to modern magazines. In the late eighteenth century we saw the emergence of a new source called fashions plates.…
Fashion plates found their origin in the late 16th century and gained popularity throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. A fashion plate is a costume portrait that indicates fashion styles for men and women. Fashion plates were typically finely made…
Fashion plates are the equivalent of today's fashion magazines, given that the need for paper magazines is minimal in this digital age. In the past, fashion plates became more popular as styles evolved more rapidly. The National Portrait Gallery…
Fashion plates are crucial to understanding and visualizing the dress and appearance from historical time periods. Fashion plates are small, hand-colored prints illustrating different people wearing the latest styles. They usually did not include a…
This hand-colored fashion plate is identified on the page as #2567 and dated 1828. The artist is unknown. The image was probably published in Le Journal des Dames et des Modes, Costumes Parisiens. This was a French magazine founded and edited by…
Rapidly changing styles created a need for fashion plates as people needed new ways to keep up with the latest in fashion. In the late 1700s and into the 1800s, “fashion plates showed ladies and their dressmakers what fashionable society was wearing…
Fashion plates serve as windows into the past, offering detailed glimpses of the styles and trends of bygone eras. The June 1827 edition of The Lady's Monthly Museum not only adds to the fashion plates in the Historic Textile and Costume Collection,…
Fashion plates are records of fashion from the eighteenth century through the early twentieth centuries. These printed and hand-colored images were produced to show what was fashionable at the time. As part of the earliest magazines, fashion…
Fashion plates are defined as “small, printed images, often hand-colored, of people wearing the latest fashions and depicted in conventional minimally narrative social contexts”, according to the Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion, Volume 2, by…