Fashion plate
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A fashion plate is an illustration demonstrating the highlights of fashionable styles of clothing. Traditionally they are rendered through etching, line engraving, or lithograph and then colored by ha
Fashion plate, 1860 V&A Museum no. E.267-1942
1942 fashion plate from Argentina.
1830s fashion plate
Fashion plate, Godey's Lady's Book, January 1837
Godey's Lady's Book
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Godey's Lady's Book, alternatively known as Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book, was an American women's magazine that was published in Philadelphia from 1830 to 1896. It was the most widely circulated m
Fashion plate
…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. Publisher Louis Antoine…
Cover from June 1867 issue
Queen Victoria style of Christmas tree 1848, a picture adapted for Godey's Lady's Book, December 1850