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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…

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,…

This fashion plate is labeled “London Dresses for October. Published by Vernor Hood and Sharpe, Oct. 1, 1808.” During this period high-waisted Empire dresses were popular. The waistline ends just below the bust and the trim at the hem is becoming…

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…

This fashion plate, entitled “Fashionable Walking and Evening Dresses for October 1818” was published October 1, 1818 by Dean & Munday, Threadneedle Street, as noted on the bottom of the plate. Dean & Munday was a printer located in London…

This fashion plate from The Lady’s Museum illustrates two evening dresses for February 1803. While the two ensembles are different, both begin with a short sleeved white dress with an empire waist. The figure on the lefts wears a Regency open robe in…