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Fashion plates were popular from the late 18th century throughout the 19th and were used to indicate certain styles of clothing that dressmakers, tailors, or a store can make (Nevinson, 2021). These were highly useful during these centuries due to…

Evening Dress.Fashion plates showed women and their dressmakers what fashionable society was wearing in London and Paris (National Portrait Gallery). In 1812, a neoclassical look with tubular silhouette, empire waist, and open neckline reigned for…

Morning DressPublished for the proprietors, Novr. 1By the early nineteenth century, fashion plates were a popular medium to display the “artistic, historical, moral, and aesthetic feeling of their time” (Ginsberg 2005, p. 66). They also kept women up…

The fashion plate shown here appeared in The Lady’s Monthly Museum or Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction. Published in London between 1798 and 1832, The Lady’s Monthly had a collection of subjects for women including poems, essays, and…

Evening Dress, Lady’s Magazine, November, 1814 Fashion plates were the portal to the fashion world for someone who wanted to know the latest styles in 1814. The young woman is seated on a chair with her feet on a footrest. She is bent over slightly,…

Carriage DressThis fashion plate depicts an ensemble suitable for riding in a carriage, which was a major form of transportation in the early nineteenth century. It has a high collar, long sleeves, and a sizeable red shawl to keep the wearer warm.…

Full Dress for the Opera, Theatre &cThis fashion plate is captioned “Full Dress for the Opera, Theatre.” It was published in March 1815 in La Belle Assemblée, one of London’s most important women’s magazines of the early nineteenth century. The…

Riding DressFashion plates are important to historic fashion studies because they show the garment as it was meant to be worn. This fashion plate is from Lady’s Magazine or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, June 1817; the magazine ran from…

The fashion plate is inscribed Moden Z 1817, No. 39. The German word "Moden" means "fashion" in English. This particular plate showcases three women in empire-waist dresses with long sleeves and horizontal decoration at the bottom of each dress. Each…

Walking & Evening Dress for January 1818.The fashion plate was created for the January, 1818 edition of The Lady’s Monthly Museum. It depicts two women dressed intricately from head to toe. They are wearing mourning outfits to honor “Princess…